Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.

There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.