To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.
Shunryu SuzukiWhat we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.
Shunryu SuzukiIt is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.
Shunryu SuzukiWhen you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.
Shunryu Suzuki