Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

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.

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.

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

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

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

What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.