Weekend Zen, January 31 - February 1

There is something infinitely healing in the 

repeated refrains of nature –– the assurance that 

dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

~ Rachel Carson

Daily Zen - Friday, January 30

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,

gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding 

barriers, quietly building new structures. 

~ John F. Kennedy

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 29

We pay attention with respect and interest, not in order 

to manipulate, but to understand what is true. 

~ Shunryu Suzuki 

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 28

We all carry within us places of exile; our crimes,

our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the 

world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

~ Albert Camus

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 27

You  don't get to choose how you're going to die,

or when. You only get to choose how you live. Now.

~ Joan Baez

Daily Zen - Monday, January 26

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its

 troubles, it empties today of its strength.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Weekend Zen, January 24-25

Wealth consists not in having great 

possessions, but in having few wants.

~ Epictetus 

Daily Zen - Friday, January 23

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen

awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings.

~ Thomas Merton

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 22

People take different roads seeking fulfillment

and happiness. Just because they're not on 

your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

~ H. Jackson Browne, Jr.

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 21

I always wonder why birds stay in the same
place when they can fly anywhere.
Then I ask myself the same question.

~ Haran Yahya

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 20

Only to the extent that we expose 

ourselves over and over to annihilation 

can that which is indestructible be found in us.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Monday, January 19

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should 

sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven 

composed music, as Shakespeare wrote his plays.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Weekend Zen, January 17-18

We do not know the true value of our moments

until they have undergone the test of memory.

~ Georges Duhamel

Daily Zen - Friday, January 16

The butterfly counts not months but 

moments, and has time enough.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 15

We don't receive wisdom; we must 

discover it for ourselves after a journey 

that no one can take for us or spare us.

~ Marcel Proust

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 14

I decided to be happy,

it is excellent for one's health.

~ Voltaire

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 13

Learning to let go should be 

learned before learning to get. 

~ Ray Bradbury

Daily Zen - Monday, January 12

Things are always changing,

so nothing can be yours.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Weekend Zen, January 10-11

It is always the simple that 

produces the marvelous. 

~ Amelia E. Barr

Daily Zen - Friday, January 9

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually

 are, raise your sights and see possibilities ---

always see them, for they're always there.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 8

One of the secrets in life is to make 

stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

~ Jack Penn

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 7

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. 

~ E.E. Cummings

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 6th

The quieter you become,

the more you can hear. 

~ Ram Dass

Daily Zen - Monday, January 5

Cheers to a new year and another 

chance for us to get it right. 

~ Oprah Winfrey

Weekend Zen, January 3-4

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into

the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover 

will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

~ Alan Alda 

Daily Zen - Friday, January 2

Human felicity is produced not so much by 

great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, 

as by little advantages that occur every day.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 1

Most folks are about as happy as

they make up their minds to be.

~ Abraham Lincoln