Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.