If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

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.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.