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

We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

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.

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

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

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.