The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

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

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

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.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture