Daily Zen - Monday, July 31

Unity is a strength...when there is teamwork and

collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

~ Mattie Stepanek

Weekend Zen, July 29-30

Not all of us can do great things.

But we can do small things with great love.

~ Mother Teresa

Daily Zen - Friday, July 28

Nothing haunts us like

the things we don't say.

~ Mitch Albom

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 27

"I'm bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean,

you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen 

none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is 

endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand?

The fact that you're alive is amazing, 

so you don't get to say "I'm bored."

~ Louis C.K.

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 26

Be like an alone peak high in the sky.

Why should you hanker to belong?

You are not a thing! Things belong!

~ Osho

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 25

Abundance is,

in large part,

an attitude.

~ Sue Patton Thoele

Daily Zen - Monday, July 24

Do everything with a mind that let's go.

Do not expect any praise or reward. 

~ Ajahn Chah

Weekend Zen, July 22-23

I go to nature to be soothed and healed,

and to have my senses put in order. 

~ John Burroughs

Daily Zen - Friday, July 21

I regret that it takes 

a life to learn how to live.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 20

How hollow and futile life can be

when it's founded on a false belief

in continuity and permanence.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 19

We can only be said to be alive

in those moments when our hearts 

are conscious of our treasures.

~ Thornton Wilder

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 18

The trick is to enjoy life. 

Don't wish away your days,

waiting for better ones.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Daily Zen - Monday, July 17

I've never seen any life transformation that 

didn't begin with the person in question finally

getting tired of their own bullshit.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert 

Weekend Zen, July 15-16

Throw everything away, forget about it all!

You are learning too much, remembering too much,

trying too hard...relax a little bit, 

give life a chance to flow its own way, 

unassisted by your mind and effort. 

Stop directing the river's flow.

~ Mooji

Daily Zen - Friday, July 14

That's when our understanding goes deeper, 

when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable

place and that this can be completely unnerving

and completely tender at the same time.

~ Pema Chödrön

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 13

It is better to wake up after all, even to suffer,

rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

~ Kate Chopin

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 12

In about the same degree

as you are helpful,

you will be happy.

~ Karl Reiland

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 11

Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, 

you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, 

can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

~ Pablo Neruda

Daily Zen - Monday, July 10

There can be no happiness 

if the things we believe in

are different than the things we do.

~ Albert Camus

Weekend Zen, July 8-9

The art of living...is neither careless drifting

on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past

on the other. It consists in being sensitive to 

each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and

unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen - Friday, July 7

Nothing can bring you 

peace but yourself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 6

It's never the changes we want

that change everything.

~ Junot Díaz

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 5

He who controls his mind 

and has cut off his desire and anger 

realizes the self.

~ Bhagavad Gita

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 4

Lovely moments are like seeds in the soul

that grow into tender memories.

~ Robin Pickens

Daily Zen - Monday, July 3

Gratitude is the inward feeling

 of kindness received.

Thankfulness is the natural impulse

 to express that feeling.

~ Henry van Dyke

Weekend Zen, July 1-2

How beautiful a day can be

when kindness touches it.

~ George Elliston