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

Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.