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

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.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

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.

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.

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

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