Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

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.