The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 31
Nobody has ever measured, even the poets,
how much a heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 30
Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 29
Be what you are. This is the first step
toward becoming better than you are.
~ Julius Charles Hare
Monday, July 28, 2014
Daily Zen - Monday, July 28
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Weekend Zen, July 26-27
True enlightenment means rejoicing in the
happiness of others; compassion appears.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
Friday, July 25, 2014
Daily Zen - Friday, July 25
Every artist was first an amateur.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 24
Perhaps loving something is the only starting
place there is for making your life your own.
~ Alice Koller
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 23
It takes a lot of courage to show
your dreams to someone else.
~ Erma Bombeck
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 22
Your capacity to love others depends entirely on your
capacity to love yourself and take care of yourself.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Monday, July 21, 2014
Daily Zen - Monday, July 21
All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Weekend Zen, July 19-20
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of
simple joys with the trees of problems.
~ Christiane Collange
Friday, July 18, 2014
Daily Zen - Friday, July 18
Daily I seek happiness more and more within my mind,
and less and less through material pleasures.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 17
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being
something helpless that wants help from us.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 16
Keeping a sense of proportion about things and
giving others a place without losing one's own,
this is the secret of success in the theater of the world.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 15
One is loved because one is loved.
No reason is needed for loving.
~ Paulo Coelho
Monday, July 14, 2014
Daily Zen - Monday, July 14
The first step to getting the things you want
out of life is this: decide what you want.
~ Ben Stein
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Weekend Zen, July 12-13
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
~ Johann von Goethe
Friday, July 11, 2014
Daily Zen - Friday, July 11
When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often, we look so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one which has been opened for us.
~ Helen Keller
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 10
When you know in yourself that something is bad,
then give it up, and accept the good and follow it.
~ Buddha
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 9
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul:
where there is compassion even the most
poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
~ Eric Hoffer
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 8
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
~ Carl Jung
Monday, July 7, 2014
DailyZen - Monday, July 7
Before they become a tangible reality,
all phenomena are seeds.
The wise man takes great care of seeds.
~ Han Fei Zi
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Weekend Zen, July 5-6
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to
improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
~ E.B. White
Friday, July 4, 2014
Daily Zen - Friday, July 4
If we would guide by the light of reason,
we must let our minds be bold.
~ Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 3
If you cannot find truth in yourself,
then where do you hope to find it?
~ Zenrin Kushu
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 2
It is our way of seeing the world that
determines the nature of our feelings.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 1
Don't set sail on someone else's star.
~ African Proverb
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