God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

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.