In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.