Rather than practicing in the midst of life, the midst of life is practice.

If you can’t value the darkness, how will you ever value the light?

Shiv Sengupta

What is the meaning of life? You may as well ask what is the meaning of a mushroom. It is simply to be a mushroom. The meaning of life is simply life itself, to just be alive, to fully be the totality of our aliveness in all its myriad manifestations.

That the Buddha was a great man who lived many years ago and was written about in sutras doesn’t mean a thing. It is your problems that must be understood. Practice is what you do about your problems.

Kodo Sawaki

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Mike Tyson

Some of Jung’s most powerful work is his most fantastical and imaginative. It functions very much like fiction/ art in as much as it doesn’t describe reality but renders truth with symbolism.
This ‘imaginative work’ undertook as therapy can yield the most profound and transformative insights.

The past when you consider it in the present is a new and different past.

Kodo Sawaki

The right actions are born in the moment of unkowing.

The world will show you if you give yourself to the world.

James Low

True acceptance calls forth the appropriate response.

Barry Magid