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

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

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

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

We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

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.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.