It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.