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

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

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.

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

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

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

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