Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

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.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.