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.

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.

Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned.

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.

always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.

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

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