Weekend Zen, May 31 - June 1

The purpose of relationship is not to have another 

who might complete you, but to have another with 

whom you might share your completeness. 

~ Neale Donald Walsch

Daily Zen - Friday, May 30

Let no one think that he has learned all, 

because there is no ending to learning.

~ Sri Swami Satchidananda 

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 29

If you obtain one thing, you may lose another. 

If you lose one thing, you may obtain another.

~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 28

Gain, loss, truth, falsehood: 

I ask you, please abandon them.

~ Taisen Deshimaru

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 27

Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. Just follow it. 

Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

~ Sheng-Yen

Daily Zen - Monday, May 26

A hero is someone who has given his or 

her life to something bigger than oneself. 

~ Joseph Campbell

Weekend Zen, May 24-25

The sun shines for the whole world. 

~ Taisen  Deshimaru

Daily Zen - Friday, May 23

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. 

~ Thomas Carlyle 

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 22

Your work is to discover your world and 

then with all your heart give yourself to it.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 21

If you always give, you will always have. 

~ Chinese Proverb

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 20

To do great work, begin with the small.

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Monday, May 19

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, 

but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing. 

~ George Bernard Shaw

Weekend Zen, May 17-18

The wisest men follow their own direction.

~ Euripides 

Daily Zen - Friday, May 16

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, 

so shall you become. Your vision is the 

promise of what you shall at last unveil.

~ John Ruskin

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 15

An eye for an eye only ends up 

making the whole world blind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 14

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

~ Patanjali

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 13

Move always toward greater simplicity. 

~ Zen Practice

Daily Zen - Monday, May 12

Knowing what we can do nothing about and accepting it 

as our destiny, this is supreme virtue.

~ Liou Kia-Hway

Weekend Zen, May 10-11

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Daily Zen - Friday, May 9

In three words I can sum up everything 

I've learned about life. It goes on.

~ Robert Frost

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 8

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. 

~ Ambrose Redmoon

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 7

Just do what you do best.

~ Red Auerbach

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 6

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 

~ John Heywood

Daily Zen - Monday, May 5

Anything that is built must rest on a foundation. 

~ Lao Tzu

Weekend Zen, May 3-4

Let us look at a humble virtue, that of gratitude. With this virtue alone, the world could be at peace.

~ Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

Daily Zen - Friday, May 2

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

~ George Sand

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 1

If you are not ready to exchange your own happiness for the suffering of others, you will never know happiness in any life.

~ Shantideva