As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and pleasure.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

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

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.