We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.

The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.

a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.