Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

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."

Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!