This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention."