Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.

difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.

Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.

The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again.

Loving God is an act

Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.