“We are all one - or at least we should be and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation”

“If your looking for a place to be is in the presence of God we very thing is available for you to enjoy.”

“It right to do the right things with the right people.”

“Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?”

“We all have a little voice in our heads that talks to us.”

“We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the 'hakujin' believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life--you must see that these are distinct paths we are travelling, Hatsue, the 'hakujin' and we Japanese" (p. 176).”

“The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.”