Quotes from Diana L. Eck

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

There are, however, Christians and people of other faiths who seem to have no trouble speaking of God's ultimacy with one breath and staking out a private territory of God's activity and grace with the next.

It is important to realize that as theism and theological thought developed in India, each "individual" god was seen as complex. Each was seen as the thousand-headed One, Purusha, who includes the others. Each expresses the full range of God's multiplicity. Further, each is not seen as penultimate, limited to the one quarter of Reality that we know; each is seen to stretch the theological imagination beyond the world-unworld

The point is one that speaks to us all: The moment we human beings grasp God with jealousy and possessiveness, we lose hold of God. One might add that the religious point here is quite the opposite of God's jealousy, of which we hear so much in the Old Testament; it is God's infinite capacity to love and the problem of human jealousy.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.