Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.