A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

When you find that one person who's worth taking a bullet for is the on standing behind the trigger.

There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

she thought I could find a way to save her soul when she died and became an undead. Right now, I was just looking to find the rent money. I’d get to my roommate’s soul later.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean