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.

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

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.

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

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

We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.