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.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

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

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

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.

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.