The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 30
Most people do not listen with the intent
to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
~ Stephen Covey
Monday, June 29, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, June 29
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
~ Anne McCaffrey
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Weekend Zen, June 27-28
It's simple. Living a virtuous life
makes the heart peaceful.
~ Ajahn Chah
Friday, June 26, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, June 26
This in the end is the only kind
of courage that is required of us.
The courage to face the strangest most unusual
most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, June 25
It is only when the mind is free from the old that
it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
~ Krishnamurti
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 24
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
~ Simone Weil
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 23
Choose being kind over being right
and you'll be right every time.
~ Richard Carlson
Monday, June 22, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, June 22
Always remember to forget the things that made you sad,
but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
~ Victor Borge
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Weekend Zen, June 20-21
Do not look for signs.
Do not look for experiences.
Do not be so complicated.
Become like a child.
See everything with awe.
~ Robert Adams
Friday, June 19, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, June 19
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
...unless you fail to make the turn.
~ Helen Keller
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, June 18
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
~ John W. Gardner
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 17
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 16
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
~ Mother Teresa
Monday, June 15, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, June 14
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
~ Johann von Goethe
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Weekend Zen, June 13-14
Be as you wish to seem.
~ Socrates
Friday, June 12, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, June 12
If you care about something you have to protect it ---
if you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love,
you have to find the courage to live it.
~ John Irving
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, June 11
In the sweetness of friendship, let there be
laughter and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things, does the heart
find its morning and is refreshed.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 10
When you get free from certain fixed concepts
of the way the world is, you find it is more subtle,
and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
~ Alan Watts
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 9
People will do anything, no matter how
absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
~ Carl Jung
Monday, June 8, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, June 8
Make all you can,
Save all you can,
Give all you can.
~ John Wesley
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Weekend Zen, June 6-7
Help me to be in the world for no purpose
at all except for the joy of sunlight and rain.
Keep me close to the edge, where everything wild begins.
~ Tom Hennen
Friday, June 5, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, June 5
When we understand the truth of
impermanence, and find composure in it,
there we find ourselves in nirvana.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, June 4
A contented heart is an even sea
in the midst of all storms.
~ Anonymous
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 3
To accomplish great things,
we must dream as well as act.
~ Anatole France
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 2
Be grateful for the home you have,
knowing at this moment,
all you have is all you need.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Monday, June 1, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, June 1
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of our compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
~ Albert Einstein
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