“Awareness is our true self; its what we are. So we dont have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our ju...”

“103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because ...”

“When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.”

“When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that dis...”

“If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as Im a good person for doing this or Isnt it wonderful, tha...”

“When we seek from Zen (or from any spiritual path) the fulfillment of our fantasies, we separate from the earth and sky, from our loved ones, from our aching backs and hearts, from the very soles o...”

“Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being.”

“There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own lifes meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose...”

“There is a greater purpose to living which is found in the spirit, which is the Being, and that purpose is worth living for.”

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”

“Was it possible that the emotion of love had somehow made me more susceptible to fear? Does the noble emotion of love make us start valuing our own lives and the lives of our loved ones more so tha...”