When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

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

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

When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

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