Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 31

Every day I examine myself on these points.

In looking after the affairs of others, have I been loyal?

In my relationships with friends, have I been sincere?

~ Tseng-Tzu

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 30

Fortify yourself with contentment,

for this is an impregnable fortress. 

~ Epictetus 

Daily Zen - Monday, December 29

To succeed, you need to take that 

gut feeling in what you believe

and act on it with all of your heart.

~ Christy Borgeld

Weekend Zen, December 27-28

Love doesn't make the world go 'round.

Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

~ Franklin P. Jones

Daily Zen - Friday, December 26

Those who know quiet, alone, are as 

carefree as the flowers in the breeze,

 as pure as snow in the moonlight.

~ Hong Zicheng

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 25

Love the beings of the world equally and universally. 

~ Chuang Tzu

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 24

What the world really needs is 

more love and less paperwork.

~ Pearl Bailey

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 23

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many 

things which escape those who dream only by night.

~ Edgar Allen Poe

Daily Zen - Monday, December 22

Have patience with all things, 

but chiefly have patience with yourself. 

Do not lose courage in considering your 

own imperfections, but instantly set about 

remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

~ St. Francis De Sales

Weekend Zen, December 20-21

Good humor is one of the best articles 

of dress one can wear in society. 

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Daily Zen - Friday, December 19

Every day, in every way. 

I am getting better and better.

~ Emile Coue

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 18

Great things are not done by impulse, but by

a series of small things brought together.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 17

If you need something from somebody

always give that person a way to hand it to you.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 16

Nothing is so strong as gentleness,

and nothing is so gentle as true strength. 

~ St. Francis De Sales

Daily Zen - Monday, December 15

Even a man who stands at the lowest foot of a 

mountain can look at the highest point, and 

gradually climb, step by step, until he reaches the top. 

~ Swami Satprakashananda

Weekend Zen, December 13-14

You are what you think.

You are what you go for.

You are what you do.

~ Bob Richards

Daily Zen - Friday, December 12

Along the path, the gaze of the moon follows you.

The tangled branches there on the snow

mark out the signs of your thoughts.

~ François Cheng

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 11

Be a lamp unto your own feet;

do not seek outside yourself.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 10

Recognizing the sacred begins, quite simply,

when we are interested in every detail of our lives.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 9

A stumble may prevent a fall.

~ Thomas Fuller

Daily Zen - Monday, December 8

One can only know the best of oneself 

through awareness of the best of other people.

~ François Cheng

Weekend Zen, December 6-7

Fear less, hope more. Whine less, breathe more.

Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

And all good things are yours.

~ Swedish Proverb

Daily Zen - Friday, December 5

The very least you can do in your life is 

figure out what you hope for. And the most 

you can do is live inside that hope. 

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 4

Dignity is the state of a man who is well prepared and 

who is not troubled by the actions of others. 

~ Kenji Tokitsu

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 3

Do the hardest thing on earth for you.

Act for yourself. Face the truth.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 2

True morality consists not in the following the 

well-beaten track, but in finding out the true path

for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Daily Zen - Monday, December 1

You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the 

entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

~ Buddha

Weekend Zen, November 29-30

If you're too busy to enjoy

life, you're too busy.

~ Jeff Davidson

Daily Zen - Friday, November 28

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. 

All things pass. Patience achieves everything.

~ Teresa of Ávila

(Happy Black Friday. Enjoy the Shopping.)

Thanksgiving Zen - Thursday, November 27

If the only prayer you said was thank you, 

that would be enough.

~ Meister Eckhart

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 26

Accept everything about yourself - I mean 

everything. You are you and that is the beginning 

and the end - no apologies, no regrets. 

~ Henry Kissinger

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 25

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone 

monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

~ Pericles

Daily Zen - Monday, November 24

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock,

don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes.

~ Osho

Weekend Zen, November 22-23

Little by little, one travels far.

~ J.R.R. Tolkein

Daily Zen - Friday, November 21

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

~ Langston Hughes

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 20

In this life of ours, others may help us, may

support us for a moment when we are fallen,

may seek to awaken us to our own true nature,

but realization must come from within.

~ Paramananda

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 19

Laughter is an instant vacation.

~ Milton Berle 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 18

Let us live happily then, not

hating those who hate us.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Monday, November 17

The wise man does not govern men from outside.

First he changes himself and then his influence spreads.

~ Chuang Tzu

Weekend Zen, November 15-16

Now and then it's good to pause in our

pursuit of happiness and just be happy. 

~ Guillaume Appolinaire

Daily Zen - Friday, November 14

To freely bloom -

that is my definition of success.

~ Gerry Spence

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 13

Truly nothing is to be expected

but the unexpected.

~ Alice James

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 12

You are only young once, and if

you do it right, once is enough.

~ Joe E. Lewis

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 11

There is only one quality worse than 

hardness of heart and that is softness of head. 

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Zen - Monday, November 10

Calm is the basis of right and

understanding. Calm is strength.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Weekend Zen, November 8-9

You're never too old to become younger.

~ Mae West

Daily Zen - Friday, November 7

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish 

is strong enough. What do you want to do? That's what 

I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 6

We must find the Middle Way,

without going to one side or the other,

but bringing the two together. 

~Taisen Deshimaru

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 5

What else is love but understanding and

rejoicing in the fact that another person lives,

acts, and experiences otherwise than we do 

and crosswise to our purposes?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 4

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, 

and see yourself running with them. 

~ Marcus Aurelius