All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Life is a second-by-second miracle.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.