Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action..

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are..

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness..

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you..

All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad..

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressi….

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is..

Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now..

Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies..

When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the ….

This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well..

Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matte….

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accep….

In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next..

God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still..

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? ….

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle no….

Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home..

we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without..

When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering..

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves..