The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
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
Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 30
Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
~ Hugh Sidey
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
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, December 24
Be an opener of doors...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 23
Only the hand that erases
can write the true thing.
~ Meister Echkart
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
Monday, December 21, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, December 21
Be --- don't try to become.
~ Osho
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
Daily Zen - Thursday, December 17
Don't be scared to walk alone.
Don't be scared to like it.
~ John Mayer
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
Daily Zen - Monday, December 14
I don't want to earn a living;
I want to live.
~ Oscar Wilde
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Weekend Zen, December 12-13
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
~ Deepak Chopra
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
Monday, December 7, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, December 7
I shall either find a way or make one.
~ Hannibal
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Weekend Zen, December 5-6
The time you enjoy wasting
is not wasted time.
~ Bertrand Russell
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
Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 2
It takes courage to grow up
and be who you really are.
~ e.e. cummings
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
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