Thursday, December 31, 2015

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 31



And now we welcome the new year, 
full of things that have never been. 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

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

Monday, December 28, 2015

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

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Weekend Zen, December 26-27




If you think adventure is dangerous, 
try routine. It is lethal.

~ Paulo Coelho

Friday, December 25, 2015

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

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

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

Saturday, December 19, 2015

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

Friday, December 18, 2015

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

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

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

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

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

Monday, December 14, 2015

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Friday, December 11, 2015

Daily Zen - Friday, December 11



In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about life:
It goes on.

~ Robert Frost

Thursday, December 10, 2015

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

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

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


Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 8



Surrender to what is.
Let go of what was.
Have faith in what will be.

~ Sonia Ricotti

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Friday, December 4, 2015

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

Thursday, December 3, 2015

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

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

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