The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

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