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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.