In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

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.

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.

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

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.

In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.

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