Phillip Lund

There are places worth visiting that can only be reached by sitting silently in an empty room.

To tell the truth in love means to tell it with concern not only for the truth that is being told but with concern also for the people it is being told to.

A seeker’s story is theirs to tell—no one else’s.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God-given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

The progressive religious identity is...very much a work in progress.

Progressive spirituality is...well at home in a particular liberal and mystical strand of western religion

Progressive Spirituality

Wonder is the only adequate launching pad for exploring this fullness, this wholeness, of human life.

Spiritual companioning gives priority to individuals' current experience of God.

"Living without mystery means knowing nothing of the mystery of our own life, nothing of the mystery of another person, nothing of the mystery of the world; it means passing over our own hidden qualities and those of others and the world. It means remaining on the surface, taking the world seriously only to the extent that it can be calculated and exploited, and not going beyond the world of calculation and exploitation. Living without mystery means not seeing the crucial processes of life at all and even denying them." .

"The awareness of a spiritual tradition that reaches through the centuries gives one a certain feeling of security in the face of all transitory difficulties."

Faith is not fundamentally about one's beliefs but about one's commitments.

Whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting—that is, of hopefully doing without—will never experience the full blessing of fulfillment.