In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.