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

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

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

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 

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

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

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

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