When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

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.

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.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

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

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.