Daily Zen - Thursday, December 31

And now we welcome the new year, 

full of things that have never been. 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 30

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

~ Hugh Sidey

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 29

Chance is always powerful.

Let your hook be always cast.

In the pool where you least expect it,

there will be a fish.

~ Ovid

Daily Zen - Monday, December 28

The mystery does not get clearer 

by repeating the questions.

Nor is it bought by going to amazing places.

Until you've kept your eyes and your wanting still for 

fifty years, you don't begin to cross over from confusion.

~ Rumi

Weekend Zen, December 26-27

If you think adventure is dangerous, 

try routine. It is lethal.

~ Paulo Coelho

Daily Zen - Friday, December 25

Our task must be to widen our circle of compassion 

to embrace all living creatures 

and the whole of nature in its beauty. 

- Albert Einstein

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 24

Be an opener of doors...

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 23

Only the hand that erases

can write the true thing.

~ Meister Echkart 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 22

Confidence, like art, never comes from

 having all the answers; it comes from 

being open to all the questions. 

~ Wallace Stevens

Daily Zen - Monday, December 21

Be --- don't try to become.

~ Osho

Weekend Zen, December 19-20

We do not need magic to change the world,

we carry all the power we need

 inside ourselves already.

We have the power to imagine better.

~ J.K. Rowling

Daily Zen - Friday, December 18

Do not travel far to other dusty lands,

forsaking your own sitting place;

if you cannot find the truth where 

you are now, you will never find it.

~ Dogen

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 17

Don't be scared to walk alone.

Don't be scared to like it.

~ John Mayer

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 16

If we forgive life for not being what we told it to be,

or expected, or wished, or longed for it to be, we forgive 

ourselves for not being what we might have been also.

And then we can be what we are, which is boundless.

~ John Tarrant

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 15

If you can't figure out your purpose, 

figure out your passion. For your passion

will lead you right into your purpose.

~ T.D. Jakes

Daily Zen - Monday, December 14

I don't want to earn a living;

I want to live.

~ Oscar Wilde

Weekend Zen, December 12-13

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

~ Deepak Chopra

Daily Zen - Friday, December 11

In three words I can sum up

everything I've learned about life:

It goes on.

~ Robert Frost

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 10

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly.

Let it cut more deep. 

Let it ferment and season you

as few human or even divine ingredients can.

~Hafiz

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 9

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. 

If you go off into a far, far forest and 

get very quiet, you'll come to understand that 

you're connected with everything.

~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 8

Surrender to what is.

Let go of what was.

Have faith in what will be.

~ Sonia Ricotti

Daily Zen - Monday, December 7

I shall either find a way or make one.

~ Hannibal

Weekend Zen, December 5-6

The time you enjoy wasting

is not wasted time. 

~ Bertrand Russell

Daily Zen - Friday, December 4

Not thinking about anything is Zen.

Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting

or lying down, everything you do is Zen. 

~ Bodhidarma

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 3

There would seem to be nothing more obvious,

more tangible and palpable, than the present moment.

And yet it eludes us completely. 

All the sadness of life lies in that fact.

~ Milan Kundera

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 2

It takes courage to grow up 

and be who you really are.

~ e.e. cummings

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 1

The only thing that we can know 

is that we know nothing 

and that is the highest flight of reason.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Daily Zen - Monday, November 30

Your present circumstances don't determine where 

you can go; they merely determine where you start.

~ Nido Qubein

Weekend Zen, November 28-29

I should be content to look at a mountain for 

what it is and not as a comment on my life. 

~ David Ignatow

Daily Zen - Friday, November 27

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. 

All things pass. Patience achieves everything.

~ Teresa of Ávila

(Happy Black Friday. Enjoy the Shopping.)

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 26

If the only prayer you said was thank you,

that would be enough.

~ Meister Eckhart

(Happy Thanksgiving!)

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 25

New beginnings are often 

disguised as painful endings.

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 24

Don't ever take a fence down 

until you know why it was put up.

~ Robert Frost

Daily Zen - Monday, November 23

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world

than to regard half an hour as a trifle. 

~ Johann von Goethe

Weekend Zen, November 21-22

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist.

Use Buddhism to become better at whatever

else in your life you are doing already.

~ Dalai Lama

Daily Zen - Friday, November 20

To be rooted in life --- to learn, to desire, 

to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want.

And nothing less. This is what I must try for.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 19

The most precious gift we can 

offer anyone is our attention.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 18

When you are fooled by someone else,

the damage will not be so big. But when 

you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 17

You take it all in. You let the pain of the world

touch your heart and you turn it into compassion.

~ Gyalwa Karmapa

Daily Zen - Monday, November 16

If you are always trying to be normal,

you will never know how amazing you can be.

~ Maya Angelou

Weekend Zen, November 14-15

The smallest act of kindness is worth

more than the grandest intention.

~ Oscar Wilde

Daily Zen - Friday, November 13

Don't let them tame you. 

~ Isadora Duncan

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 12

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins;

it is less difficult to know that it has begun. 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 11

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height.

Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.

Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness

is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. 

Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, 

the deeper it goes simultaneously....

it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

~ Osho

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 10

... every saint has a past, 

and every sinner has a future.

~ Oscar Wilde

Daily Zen - Monday, November 9

It always seems impossible

until it's done.

~ Nelson Mandela 

Weekend Zen, November 7-8

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and 

heartbreaking stupidity of words.

~ William Faulkner

Daily Zen - Friday, November 6

The path is the goal.

~ Buddhist Saying

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 5

Defend your inner world. Be present.

Be in the moment. Engaged. Connected.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke 

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 4

To bear defeat with dignity,

to accept criticism with poise,

to receive honors with humility ---

these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

~ William Arthur Ward