Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 24

Everything is a gift. 

The degree to which we are awake 

to this truth is a measure of our

gratefulness, and gratefulness is

a measure of our aliveness.

~ David Steindl-Rast

Weekend Zen, November 13-14

It isn't primarily a practice of thinking

of one's last hour, or of death as a 

physical phenomenon; it is a seeing of 

every moment of life against the horizon

 of death, and a challenge to incorporate that 

awareness of dying into every moment 

so as to become more fully alive.

~ Brother David Steindl-Rast