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? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

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

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

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

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.

When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.