Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.

Ultimately love is everything.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.