My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning for Hindus. That was the place I lived for the first year I was in India and I've… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America. — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides. — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself. — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
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… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
