Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

Today is tomorrow’s stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.

Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

Put me on stage and I'm happy.

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.