Weekend Zen, May 4-5

The ship is always off course.

Anybody who sails knows that.

Sailing is being off course 

and correcting. That gives a

sense of what life is about.

~ Michael Meade

Daily Zen - Friday, May 3

Have a mind that is

open to everything

and attached to nothing.

~ Tilopa

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 2

All appears to change

when we change.

~ Henri Amiel

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 1

Every flow

hath its ebb. 

~ James Kelly

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 30

When you get free from certain fixed 

concepts of the way the world is, 

you find it is far more subtle, 

and far more miraculous

than you thought it was.

~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen - Monday, April 29

Patience and perseverance

have a magical effect 

before which 

difficulties disappear

and obstacles vanish.

~ John Quincy Adams

Weekend Zen, April 27-28

All things are in motion

and nothing is at rest. 

You cannot go into 

the same river twice.

~ Heraclitus

Daily Zen - Friday, April 26

Things that are done, 

it is needless to speak about. 

Things that are past,

it is needless to blame.

~ Confucius

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 25

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. 

Notice the bumble bee, the small

child, and the smiling faces. 

Smell the rain, and feel the wind.

~ Ashley Smith

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 24

The doors we 

open and close

each day decide 

the lives we live.

~ Flora Whittemore

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 23

Love is not only the 

most important ingredient,

it is the only ingredient

that really matters.

~ Anonymous

Daily Zen - Monday, April 22

Sometimes the questions 

are complicated

and the answers

are simple.  

~ Theodore Seuss Geisel

Weekend Zen, April 20-21

The key in letting go is practice.

Each time we let go, we disentangle

ourselves from expectations and 

begin to experience things as they are.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Daily Zen - Friday, April 19

Joy is being willing for

things to be as they are.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 18

All things that are born 

must die. Work hard for your

own freedom from sorrow.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 17

The smallest act of kindness

is worth more than the

grandest intention.

~ Oscar Wilde

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 16

Do not seek after what you

yearn for, seek the source

of the yearning itself.

~ Adyashanti 

Daily Zen - Monday, April 15

Peace begins

with a smile.

~ Mother Teresa

Weekend Zen, April 13-14

The best thing about the future

is that it only comes 

one day at a time.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Daily Zen - Friday, April 12

Keep me away from 

the wisdom which does not cry, 

the philosophy which does not laugh, 

and the greatness which does 

not bow before children.

~ Kahlil Gibran