The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

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.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.