The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Weekend Zen, November 29-30
If you're too busy to enjoy
life, you're too busy.
~ Jeff Davidson
Friday, November 28, 2014
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.)
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Thanksgiving Zen - Thursday, November 27
If the only prayer you said was thank you,
that would be enough.
~ Meister Eckhart
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
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
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
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
Monday, November 24, 2014
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
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Weekend Zen, November 22-23
Little by little, one travels far.
~ J.R.R. Tolkein
Friday, November 21, 2014
Daily Zen - Friday, November 21
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
~ Langston Hughes
Thursday, November 20, 2014
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
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 19
Laughter is an instant vacation.
~ Milton Berle
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 18
Let us live happily then, not
hating those who hate us.
~ Buddha
Monday, November 17, 2014
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
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Weekend Zen, November 15-16
Now and then it's good to pause in our
pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
~ Guillaume Appolinaire
Friday, November 14, 2014
Daily Zen - Friday, November 14
To freely bloom -
that is my definition of success.
~ Gerry Spence
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Daily Zen - Thursday, November 13
Truly nothing is to be expected
but the unexpected.
~ Alice James
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 12
You are only young once, and if
you do it right, once is enough.
~ Joe E. Lewis
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 11
There is only one quality worse than
hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Monday, November 10, 2014
Daily Zen - Monday, November 10
Calm is the basis of right and
understanding. Calm is strength.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Weekend Zen, November 8-9
You're never too old to become younger.
~ Mae West
Friday, November 7, 2014
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
Thursday, November 6, 2014
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
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
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
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 4
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars,
and see yourself running with them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Monday, November 3, 2014
Daily Zen - Monday, November 3
Opportunities are multiplied as they are seized.
~ Sun Tzu
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Weekend Zen, November 1-2
To reflect is to reflect on the most
subtle details of one's actions.
~ Tseng-Tzu
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