Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.

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

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.