An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

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

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

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.