Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into silence does not necessarily hate language. Perhaps it is love and respect for language which imposes silence upon him. For the mercy of God is not heard in words unless it is heard, both before and after the words are spoken, in silence.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

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

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.