In this text, the author - a practicing psychotherapist - explores the challenges and joys of making our life a coherent whole. Psychotherapy addresses our sense of fragmentation in an effort to help us be uniquely ourselves. Zen Buddhist practice insists we find ourselves on every moment of our lives; it speaks to the basic connectedness of all things. This book attempts to intergrate the two. Each chapter takes a short Buddhist text and explores what it teaches about the obstacles and openings inherent in practicing psychotherapy.