Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.