The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 31
It was only a sunny smile,
and little it cost in the giving,
but like morning light
it scattered the night
and made the day worth living.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, March 30, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, March 30
Everything we do is futile,
but we must do it anyway.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Weekend Zen, March 28-29
New beauty meets us at
every step in all our wanderings.
~ John Muir
Friday, March 27, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, March 27
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.
Go forward and make your dreams come true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, March 26
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 25
Tell people about your religion
without the use of your tongue.
~ Imam Ja'Far Al-Sadiq
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 24
It's not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to
see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is.
~ Ajahn Sumedo
Monday, March 23, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, March 23
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit:
we cannot flower and grow without it.
~ Jess Lair
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Weekend Zen, March 21-22
Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
Friday, March 20, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, March 20
Why not go out on a limb?
That's where all the fruit is.
~ Will Rogers
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, March 19
Not what we have, but what we enjoy
constitutes our abundance.
~ Epicurus
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 18
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
~ Lao Tzu
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 17
New growth happens in directions
we never could have imagined.
~ Robin Pickens
Monday, March 16, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, March 16
The happiness of your life depends
upon the quality of your thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Weekend Zen, March 14-15
When you go out into the world,
it's best to hold hands and stick together.
~ Robert Fulghum
Friday, March 13, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, March 13
This very moment is the perfect teacher,
and lucky for us it's with us wherever we are.
~ Pema Chodron
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, March 12
Of all the ways to avoid living,
perfect discipline is the most admired.
~ James Richardson
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 11
When we do the best we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought
in our life, or in the life of another.
~ Helen Keller
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 10
Our worth comes not from the amount of
our involvements, achievements, or possessions,
but from the depth and care which we bring
to each moment, place, and person in our lives.
~ Richard A. Bower
Monday, March 9, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, March 9
Do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain
common work as it comes, certain that daily duties
and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Weekend Zen, March 7-8
Let there be
an opening
into the quiet
that lies beneath
the chaos,
where you find
the peace
you did not think
possible
and see what shimmers
within the storm.
~ Jan Richardson
Friday, March 6, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, March 6
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
~ Albert Einstein
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, March 5
I live in the open mindedness of
not knowing enough about anything.
~ Mary Oliver
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 4
Only in solitude do we find ourselves.
~ Miguel De Unamuno
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 3
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man;
true nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Monday, March 2, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, March 2
Do not be pushed by your problems.
Be led by your dreams.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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