A word missing from the dictionary: Suffercating: When the heart, spirit, mind are in great sadness and pain that your whole soul feel as if you are drowning in ocean of loneliness and pain. There for you are Suffocating by Suffering.

The simplest thing are the things a that appeal most to the heart. A simple hug, kiss and smile from a love one can shine light upon your darkest time.

May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.

How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still not be allowed to fall in love or be honest? Surely not everything had to wait for university and a good job. Passion and truth had to trump even those things.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.