“We can’t just restrict ourselves to what we know, because we are talking about the unknown.”

“Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.”

“It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)”

“Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.”

“Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.”

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”

“Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word “faith,” feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith. Broadly speaking, “faith” does not apply only to belief in the supernatural. We have faith in our life, for example, believing we will live to see tomorrow, or in our health, believing we have years of healthy life ahead of us. Husbands and wives, parents and children have faith in one another.”