Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.