Daily Zen - Thursday, April 30

You are never given a dream without also 

being given the power to make it true.

~ Richard Bach

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 29

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. 

Kindness in giving creates love.

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 28

You will never be happy if you continue 

to search for what happiness consists of.

You will never live if you are 

looking for the meaning of life.

~ Albert Camus

Daily Zen - Monday, April 27

If you truly wish to practice, just let go of everything.

Know nothing, understand nothing. 

~ Daie Soko

Weekend Zen, April 25-26

There is just one life 

for each of us: our own.

~ Euripides 

Daily Zen - Friday, April 24

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun,

 to have lived light in the spring, to have loved,

 to have thought, to have done.

~Matthew Arnold

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 23

For me, every hour is grace. I feel gratitude in my heart 

each time I meet someone and look at his or her smile.

~ Elie Wiesel

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 22

The rain falls equally on all things.

~ Zen Saying

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 21

To be on a quest is nothing more or 

less than to become an asker of questions.

~ Sam Keen

Daily Zen - Monday, April 20

Peace begins with a smile.

~ Mother Teresa

Weekend Zen, April 18-19

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake

is to be continually thrown out of the nest. 

To live fully is to be in no-man's-land, 

to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Friday, April 17

The curious paradox is that

when I accept myself just as I am, 

then I can change.

~ Carl Rogers

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 16

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration:

set the kitchen timer for 20 minutes,

cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell,

simmer down and go about business as usual.

~ Phyllis Diller

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 15

The middle way is found between all opposites.

Rest in the middle and find well-being wherever you are.

~ Joseph Goldstein

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 14

If you ask me what I came to do in this world,

I will answer you, "I am here to live out loud!"

~ Emile Zola

Daily Zen - Monday, April 13

We're all only fragile threads,

but what a tapestry we make.

~ Jerry Ellis

Weekend Zen, April 11-12

Always do right. This will gratify

some people and astonish the rest.

~ Mark Twain

Daily Zen - Friday, April 10

Success is not final, failure is not fatal:

it is the courage to continue that counts.

~ Winston Churchill

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 9

Your only obligation in any lifetime

is to be true to yourself.

~ Richard Bach

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 8

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. 

I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

~ Ryan White

Ryan White died 25 years ago today.

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 7

Our happiness depends on the

habit of mind we cultivate. 

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Daily Zen - Monday, April 6

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,

it sings because it has a song.

~ Maya Angelou

Weekend Zen, April 4-5

If you ask people what kinds of activities bring 

them pleasure, it's usually contact with nature, 

things that are creative, and relationships with people. 

The things we do to live simply 

bring us all of those satisfactions.

~ Jeanne Roy

Daily Zen - Friday, April 3

Stay close to any sounds that

make you glad you are alive.

~ Hafiz

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 2

You yourself, 

as much as anybody 

in the entire universe,

deserve your love and attention. 

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 1

A person's life purpose is nothing more than 

to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, 

or passionate work, those one or two images 

in the presence of which his heart first opened.

~ Albert Camus