Everything that happens in life is there to aid our 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.

Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

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.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.