Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.