Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no read more

Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the read more

The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything read more

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute read more

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas read more

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

God is seated in the hearts of all.

God is seated in the hearts of all.