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

When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

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

Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.

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