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).

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?

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.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

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

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.