To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

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

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.