Where, then, is this eternal religion – the sanatana dharma, as the Hindus call it – to be found? It is to be found in every religion as its ground or source, but it is beyond all formulations. It is the reality behind all rites, the truth behind all dogmas, the justice behind all laws. But it is also to be found in the heart of every man. It is the law ‘written on their hearts.’ It is not known by sense or reason but by the experience of the soul in its depths. Of this it has been said: “Thy natural senses cannot possess God or unite thee to him; nay, thy inward faculties of understanding, will, and memory, can only reach after God, but cannot be the place of habitation in thee. But there is a root or depth in thee from whence all these faculties come forth, as lines from a centre or as branches from a tree. This depth is called the Centre, the Fund or Bottom of the soul. This depth is the unity, the eternity, I had almost said the infinity of thy soul; for it is so infinite that nothing can satisfy it but the infinity of God. It is in this depth that all true religion is to be found. It is the source from which all religion springs, the goal to which it aspires, and it is present in the heart of every man. It is from this Centre that man fell and it is to this Centre that he must return. Every religion seeks to make this known and to map out the path of return. Each man must therefore discover this Centre in himself, this Ground of his being, this Law of his life..
Father Griffiths from his book “Return to the Center” Chapter 15, “The Eternal Religion,” courtesy of a wonderful blog that takes their name from this very quote. 
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