If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.