The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

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

This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.