Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.