Diana L. Eck

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

— Diana L. Eck

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

— Diana L. Eck

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

— Diana L. Eck

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

— Diana L. Eck

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We…

— Diana L. Eck

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I…

— Diana L. Eck

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

— Diana L. Eck

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

— Diana L. Eck

If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but…

— Diana L. Eck

India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it…

— Diana L. Eck

When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of…

— Diana L. Eck

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second…

— Diana L. Eck

There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in…

— Diana L. Eck

Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take…

— Diana L. Eck

The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more…

— Diana L. Eck

My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning…

— Diana L. Eck

I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good…

— Diana L. Eck

People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we…

— Diana L. Eck

The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to…

— Diana L. Eck

Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and…

— Diana L. Eck

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the…

— Diana L. Eck

I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else's religious community has its own lessons, really. It is…

— Diana L. Eck

Be prepared for changes.

— Diana L. Eck

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

— Diana L. Eck

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our…

— Diana L. Eck

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be…

— Diana L. Eck

My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith…

— 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…

— Diana L. Eck

I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains…

— Diana L. Eck