The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."

念佛的禅定境界，是各种禅定中最殊胜的

故事的力量在于它能够激发宽恕。