Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 31

When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace.

Nothing real, nothing absent.

Not holding on to reality,

not getting stuck in the void,

you are neither holy nor wise, just

an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.

~ Layman P'ang

Daily Zen - Monday, January 30

Happiness is like a butterfly which, 

when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, 

but, if you will sit down quietly, 

may alight upon you. 

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne 

Weekend Zen, January 28-29

Just try to feel your own weight, in your own seat, in your own feet. Okay? So if you can feel that weight in your body, if you can come back into the most personal identification, a very personal identification, which is: I am. This is me now. Here I am, right now. This is me now. Then you don't feel like you have to leave, and be over here, or look over there. 

You don't feel like you have to rush off and be somewhere.

~ Bill Murray

Daily Zen - Friday, January 27

There will always be an infinity of things to do. We can never get our life or our business or our kitchen running exactly the way we want it to run. Life is not predetermined to the point that we can get to some stage and see how it all works. What happens is that we have a better and better understanding of things, we have more and more clarity and ability to deal with things, as they arise. But they keep arising, endlessly. The empty sky is always creating new clouds.
The pot is always boiling.

~ Kōshō Uchiyama

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 26

We cannot avoid conflict. Like good music, 

life expresses itself through conflict and resolution. 

~ David Nichtern

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 25

Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. 

They are as much for you as they are for other people. 

Remember this when you wake up in the morning and 

think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. 

Now praise the sky and the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.

~ Miranda July

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 24

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, 

yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe

and with the unbearable pain --- to just be with it all.

~ Ram Dass

Daily Zen - Monday, January 23

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only

 the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. 

~ Theodore Vail

Weekend Zen, January 21-22

And one has to understand that braveness is

not the absence of fear, but rather the strength

to keep on going forward despite the fear.

~ Paulo Coelho 

Daily Zen - Friday, January 20

Walk with the dreamers, the believers,

the courageous, the cheerful, the planners,

the doers, the successful people with their

heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.

Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to 

leave this world better than when you found it. 

~ Wilfred Peterson

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 19

It is not only for what we do 

that we are held responsible, 

but also for what we do not do.

~ Moliere

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 18

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries

and predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

~ William Faulkner 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 17

The greatest events are not our noisiest,

but our stillest hours.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Daily Zen - Monday, January 16

When ego is lost, limit is lost.

You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

~ Yogi Bhajan 

Weekend Zen, January 14-15

How lucky we are,

when we're spared what

we think we want.

~ Lionel Shriver

Daily Zen - Friday, January 13

Patience is also a form of action.

~ Auguste Rodin

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 12

When one tugs at a single thing in nature,

he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

~ John Muir

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 11

Comparison is the thief of joy.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 10

The moment you accept what troubles 

you've been given, the door will open.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Monday, January 9

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

~ Sir Francis Bacon

Weekend Zen, January 7-8

I am alive. 

I am here. 

I am trying. 

That is enough.

~ Dele Olanubi

Daily Zen - Friday, January 6

We never do anything well till we cease 

to think about the manner of doing it. 

~ William Hazlitt

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 5

Your vision will become clear 

only when you look into your heart.

Who looks outside, dreams.

Who looks inside, awakens. 

~ Carl Jung

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 4

Don't think about it, just do it. 

Most of your stress is in thinking about 

what you have to do, but if you just do it 

you find the doing is easy. 

It's the thinking that's hard. 

~ Ajahn Brahm

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 3

The significance is hiding in the insignificant.

Appreciate everything.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Daily Zen - Monday, January 2

Every day passes whether you participate or not.

~ Deng Ming-Dao