The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.