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.

Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.

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.

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

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

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

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.