What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.