A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.

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.

Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life.

We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

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

The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.

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.