If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one.

The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.

Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

You can't be more alive than you are—but you can awaken to what living is.

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.

there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.