Saturday, November 30, 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

Daily Zen - Friday, November 29




Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. Patience achieves everything.

~ Teresa of Ávila

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 27




Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
                                        ~ Charles Dickens

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 26




The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Monday, November 25, 2013

Daily Zen - Monday, November 25





I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
                                              ~ Brene Brown

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Friday, November 22, 2013

Daily Zen - Friday, November 22




With no set idea of how something is supposed to be, it is hard to get stuck on things not happening in the time frame you desired. Instead, you are just being there, open to the possibilities of your life.               
                          ~ Lodro Rinzler

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 21




Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
                             
~ Michael J. Fox

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 20




To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.
     ~ Jack Kornfield

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 19





All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
        ~ Havelock Ellis

Monday, November 18, 2013

Daily Zen - Monday, November 18




Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

     ~ Hermann Hesse

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Weekend Zen, November 16-17




I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.  
          ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Friday, November 15, 2013

Daily Zen - Friday, November 15





What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
                                   ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 14




Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
                ~ Claude Monet

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 13




Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Monday, November 11, 2013

Daily Zen - Monday, November 11




The more you acquire and the harder you work to acquire it, the more you fear losing it. That's the secret in life. If you run after things, nothing will come to you.

~ Sri Swami Satchidananda

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Weekend Zen, November 9-10




The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

 ~Robert M. Pirsig

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 7




Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
         ~ Joni Mitchell





                                                        Happy Birthday, Joni! 



Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 6




Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

~ Steve Jobs

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 5





To love is to understand and feel that the other person is different.
            ~ Swami Prajnanpad

Monday, November 4, 2013

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Weekend Zen, November 2-3





The most important kind of freedom 
is to be what you really are.

        ~ Jim Morrison

Friday, November 1, 2013

Daily Zen - Friday, November 1




I bare my nakedness to the world that the world may see who I am; not the mask that hides my flaws, not the mask that hides my beauty. I bask in the light and I take off the mask!
       ~ Jocelyn Soriano