Weekend Zen, January 30-31

If the sight of blue skies fill you with joy,

if a blade of grass springing up in the fields 

has power to move you, if the simple things

of nature have a message that you understand,

rejoice, for your soul is alive.

~ Eleonora Duse

Daily Zen - Friday, January 29

It is the sweet, simple things of life

which are the real ones after all. 

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 28

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

~ Mary Oliver

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 27

Kindness is always fashionable.

~ Amelia E.Barr

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 26

We all want to be recognized. We all want to be seen.

See me. See who I am. See I am awesome.

See I am important. See me! 

This pitiful cry from the depths of our self,

this aspect of our deepest suffering. 

~ Michael Kewley

Daily Zen - Monday, January 25

The moment one gives close attention to anything,

even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,

awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

~ Henry Miller

Weekend Zen, January 23-24

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves,

it is useless to seek it elsewhere. 

~ La Rochefoucauld

Daily Zen - Friday, January 22

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity

to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform,

to love, and to be greater than our suffering. 

~ Ben Okri

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 21

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no 

concern to us; for while we exist death is not present,

and when death is present we no longer exist. 

~ Epicurus

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 20

Do I contradict myself? 

Very well then I contradict myself.

I am large, I contain multitudes.

~ Walt Whitman

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 19

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in

humble places where other people see nothing.

~ Camille Pissarro

Daily Zen - Monday, January 18

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...

get up in the morning and look at the world

in a way that takes nothing for granted. 

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Weekend Zen, January 16-17

Seize from every moment its unique novelty,

and do not prepare your joys.

~ André Gide

Daily Zen - Friday, January 15

I find the best way to clear my mind

is to simply sit alone in silence.

~ William Chapman

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 14

Expect nothing.

Live frugally

on surprise.

~ Alice Walker

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 13

If we were not so single-minded 

about keeping our lives moving,

and for once could do nothing,

 perhaps a huge silence 

might interrupt this sadness 

of never understanding ourselves...

~ Pablo Neruda

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 12

The only freedom we've got is not to react to 

anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

~ Robert Adams

Daily Zen - Monday, January 11

Have a mind that is open to everything, 

and attached to nothing. 

~ Tilopa

Weekend Zen, January 9-10

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

That is our way to live fully in each moment of time.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, January 8

Meditation practice is not about trying to 

throw ourselves away and become something better. 

It's about befriending who we already are.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 7

Don't just do something, sit there.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 6

Let silence take you to the core of life.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 5

You are not separate from the whole.

You are one with the sun, the earth,

the air. You don't have a life. You are life.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Daily Zen - Monday, January 4

Don't waste life in doubts and fears;

spend yourself on the work before you,

well assured that the right performance of 

this hour's duties will be the best preparation 

for the hours and ages that will follow it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Zen, January 2-3

To get the clearest and most efficient understanding

of a thing, therefore, it must be experienced personally.

~ D.T. Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, January 1

All we have to decide is what to do

with the time that is given us. 

~ J.R.R. Tolkein