I Grew Up Taking It For Granted

What Is Zen? Simple, Simple, So Simple. Infinite Gratitude Toward All Things Past; Infinite Service To All Things Present; Infinite Responsibility To All Things Future.

After His Great Awakening, The Buddha Continued To Meditate And To Devote Himself To Others; Otherwise His Vision Would Have Receded Into A Pleasant Memory.

I Don't Want To Justify Religion In Terms Of Its Benefits To Us. I Believe That, On Balance, It Does A Lot Of Bad Things, Too - A Tremendous Amount. But I Don't Think That The Final Justification Of Religion Is The Good It Does For People. I Think The Final Justification Is That It's True, And Truth Takes Priority Over Consequences. Religion Helps Us Deal With What Is Most Important To The Human Spirit: Values, Meaning, Purpose, And Quality.

The Crisis That The World Finds Itself In As It Swings On The Hinge Of A New Millennium Is Located In Something Deeper Than Particular Ways Of Organizing Political Systems And Economies.

It Remained For The Twentieth Century To Discover That Locked Within The Atom Is The Energy Of The Sun Itself. For This Energy To Be Released, However, The Atom Must Be Bombarded From Without. So Too, Locked In Every Human Being Is A Store Of Love That Partakes Of The Divine-the Imago Dei-image Of God, It Is Sometimes Called. And It Too Can Be Activated Only Through Bombardment, In Its Case Love's Bombardment