I truly believe that no matter your spiritual or religious bent, there is wisdom in the following, semantics aside. From my 2007 calendar that hangs on my kitchen wall:
“Taking refuge in the Buddha means that we are willing to spend our life reconnecting with the quality of being continually awake. Every time we feel like taking refuge in a habitual means of escape, we take off more armor, undoing all the stuff that covers over our wisdom and our gentleness and our awake quality. We’re not trying to be something we aren’t; rather, we’re reconnecting with who we are.”
~ Pema Chodron
