Daily Zen - Wednesday, September 30

The best way out is always through. 

~ Robert Frost

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 29

We cannot become what we want 

to be by remaining what we are. 

~ Max Depree

Daily Zen - Monday, September 28

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that
but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

~ William Butler Yeats

Weekend Zen, September 26-27

Just don't give up trying to do what you

really want to do. Where there's love and 

inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Friday, September 25

You need to build an ability to just be yourself

and not be doing something. That's what the phones

are taking away, the ability to just sit there.

That's being a person. Because underneath everything

in your life, there is that thing, that empty --- forever empty. 

That knowledge that it's all for nothing and that you're alone.

~ Louis C.K.

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 24

I don't know what's meant by Know Thyself, 

which seems to ask a window to look at a window.

I aspire to know when best to walk, or eat,

which music I need, and how to keep myself

sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured

with doing practically nothing.

~ James Richardson

Daily Zen - Wednesday, September 23

When you find peace within yourself,

you become the kind of person who

can live at peace with others.

~ Peace Pilgrim

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 22

We have to dare to be ourselves,

however frightening or strange

that self may prove to be.

~ May Sarton

Daily Zen - Monday, September 21

Your only obligation in any lifetime

is to be true to yourself. 

~ Richard Bach

Weekend Zen, September 19-20

Come forth into the light of things.

Let nature be your teacher. 

~ William Wordsworth

Daily Zen - Friday, September 18

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~ Dalai Lama

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 17

We can make our minds so like still water that beings 

gather round us that they may see... their own images,

and so live for a moment with a clearer, 

perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. 

~ William Butler Yeats

Daily Zen - Wednesday, September 16

Live in such a way that you would not be 

ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

~ Will Rogers

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 15

We don't see things as they are;

we see them as we are.

~ Anais Nin

Daily Zen - Monday, September 14

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome,

dangerous...leading to the most dazzling view. 

May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

~ Edward Abbey

Weekend Zen, September 12-13

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing 

because you can only do little - do what you can. 

~ Sydney Smith

Daily Zen - Friday, September 11

I know there is strength in the differences between us. 

I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

~ Ani DiFranco

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 10

It may be that when we no longer know

what to do we have come to our real work,

and when we no longer know which way to go,

we have come to our real journey.

~ Wendell Berry

Daily Zen - Wednesday, September 9

It is not the strongest of the species 

that survive, nor the most intelligent, 

but the one most responsive to change.

~ Charles Darwin

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 8

Blessed is the influence of one true, 

loving human soul on another.

~ George Eliot

Daily Zen - Monday, September 7

A happy thought is like a seed that 

sows positivity for all to reap. 

~ Miriam Muhammad

Weekend Zen, September 5-6

It is a wholesome and necessary thing

for us to turn again to the earth and 

in the contemplation of her beauties to

know of wonder and humility.

~ Rachel Carson

Daily Zen - Friday, September 4

Finish every day and be done with it. 

You have done what you could.

Some blunders and absurdities crept in.

Forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day: you shall begin it well 

and serenely and with too high a spirit 

to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 3

It's a puzzling thing. 

The truth knocks on the door and you say, 

"Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"

and so it goes away. Puzzling.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Daily Zen - Wednesday, September 2

The truest greatness lies in being kind,

the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 1

What may look like a small act of courage

is courage nonetheless. The important thing

is to be willing to take a step forward.

~ Daisaku Ikeda