Richard Rohr

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.