Weekend Zen, May 30-31

There is a master key to success 

with which no man can fail.

It's name is simplicity...reducing to the 

simplest possible terms every problem.

~ Henri Deterding

Daily Zen - Friday, May 29

We maintain our world with inner dialogue.

A man (or woman) of knowledge is aware 

that the world will change completely 

as soon as they stop talking to themselves.

~ Carlos Castaneda

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 28

We take things very personally. 

The more tightly we hold self, the more problem.

No self, well...no problem.

~ Hima-Tyana Dhamma Loka

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 27

Each friend represents a world in us,

a world possibly not born until they arrive.

~ Anais Nin

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 26

We make a living by what we get,

but we make a life by what we give.

~ Winston Churchill

Daily Zen - Monday, May 25

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that 

others come first and you come second. 

This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. 

Others matter more than you do, 

so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Weekend Zen, May 23-24

One can be lonely and 

not be tossed away by it.

~ Katagiri Roshi

Daily Zen - Friday, May 22

He who has a why to live

can bear almost any how.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 21

Karma means you don't get away with nothin'.

~ Ruth Denison

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 20

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want,

but the realization of how much you already have.

~ Author Unknown

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 19

Go into yourself and see how deep the 

place is from which your life flows.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Daily Zen - Monday, May 18

Whatever you do, 

or dream you can,

begin it.

~ Johann von Goethe

Weekend Zen, May 16-17

The only way you will ever awaken is through the silence,

not through the analyzation of facts. 

Not by sorting out good and bad, 

but through simple silence, letting go. 

Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas 

and concepts. Letting go of these daily.

~ Robert Adams

Daily Zen - Friday, May 15

You have to keep 

breaking your heart 

until it opens.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 14

Great things are not done by impulse, 

but by a series of small things brought together.

~ Vincent van Gogh

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 13

You cannot change your destination overnight,

but you can change your direction overnight.

~ Jim Rohn

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 12

Less is more.

~ Robert Browning

Daily Zen - Monday, May 11

Whatever happens. 

Whatever what is is is what I want.

Only that. But that.

~ Galway Kinnell 

Weekend Zen, May 9-10

Nothing ever goes away 

until it has taught us

what we need to know.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Friday, May 8

Never give up on something that you

can't go a day without thinking about.

~ Author Unknown

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 7

Work out your own salvation with diligence.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 6

Even if our words are just, 

even if our thoughts are precise, 

that is not the same as truth.

~ Taisen Deshimaru

Daily Zen - Tuesday, May 5

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions --- 

the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile,

a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Daily Zen - Monday, May 4

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger.

Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

~ Yoda

Weekend Zen, May 2-3

Where is there a place for you to be?

No place...Nothing outside can give you any place.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

~ Flannery O'Connor

Daily Zen - Friday, May 1

I have found that if you love life,

life will love you back.

~ Arthur Rubenstein