One Extends One's Limits Only By Exceeding

Discipline, It Has Been Suggested, Is The Means Of Human Spiritual Evolution. What Provides The Motive, The Energy For Discipline? This Force I Believe To Be Love. I Define Love Thus: The Will To Extend One's Self For The Purpose Of Nurturing One's Own Or Another's Spiritual Growth.

But For The First Time, I Had A Religious Identity. I Had Come Home. And So I Called Myself A Zen Buddhist At The Age Of 18.

You Cannot Truly Listen To Anyone And Do Anything Else At The Same Time.

The Path To Holiness Lies Through Questioning Everything.

The Problem Of Unmet Expectations In Marriage Is Primarily A Problem Of Stereotyping. Each And Every Human Being On This Planet Is A Unique Person. Since Marriage Is Inevitably A Relationship Between Two Unique People, No One Marriage Is Going To Be Exactly Like Any Other. Yet We Tend To Wed With Explicit Visions Of What A “good” Marriage Ought To Be Like. Then We Suffer Enormously From Trying To Force The Relationship To Fit The Stereotype And From The Neurotic Guilt And Anger We Experience When We Fail To Pull It Off.