Daily Zen - Thursday, February 20

I have lived for more than fifty years,

floating in the sea of birth and death ––

There is nothing to grasp.

~ Shinetsu

Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 19

To bear defeat with dignity, 

to accept criticism with poise,

to receive honors with humility ––

these are marks of maturity

and graciousness.

~ William Arthur Ward 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 18

When our mind isn't present,

we look but we don't see,

we listen but we don't hear,

we eat but we don't know 

the flavor of the food.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Monday, February 17

It is necessary to any originality

to have the courage to be an amateur.

~ Wallace Stevens

Weekend Zen, February 15-16

Whether or not we are happy depends on 

our awareness. When you have a toothache, you

think not having a toothache will make you happy. 

But when you don't have a toothache, often you 

are still not happy. If you practice awareness, 

you suddenly become very rich, very happy.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Friday, February 14

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like 

volcanoes and then subsides. And when it 

subsides, you have to make a decision. 

You have to work out whether your roots 

have so entwined together that it is

inconceivable that you should ever part.

~ Louis de Bernieres

Daily Zen - Thursday, February 13

The greatest good you can

do for another is not just 

to share your riches, 

but to reveal to him his own.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 12

To live a creative life,

we must lose our 

fear of being wrong.

~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 11

Peace is all around us.

It is not a matter of faith;

it is a matter of practice.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Monday, February 10

At times, you have to leave

the city of your comfort and

go into the wilderness of your intuition. 

What you'll discover will be wonderful. 

What you'll discover is yourself.

~ Alan Alda

Weekend Zen, February 8-9

In the end these things matter most:

How well did you love?

How fully did you live?

How deeply did you let go?

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Friday, February 7

Be silly.

Be honest.

Be kind.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Daily Zen - Thursday, February 6

Sitting still is not what some of us may

have imagined spiritual practice to be.

We may think that it involves something 

more impressive. But those who do it,

those who are present at this moment,

know that this is it.

~ Maurine Stuart 

Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 5

Our task must be to free ourselves

by widening our circle of compassion

to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature and its beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 4

There must be more to life

than having everything!

~ Maurice Sendak

Daily Zen - Monday, February 3

The world can only 

change from within.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Weekend Zen, February 1-2

There is no personal charm

so great as the charm of

a cheerful temperament. 

~ Henry van Dyke

Daily Zen - Friday, January 31

Finish each day and be done with it. 

You have done what you could; some 

blunders and absurdities have crept in; 

forget them as soon as you can. 

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall 

begin it serenely and with too high a spirit

 to be encumbered with your old nonsense. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 30

Good friends, good books,

and a sleepy conscience:

this is the ideal life.

~ Mark Twain

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 29

When the mind is at peace, the world too

is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent. 

Not holding on to reality, or getting stuck in

 the void, you are neither holy nor wise, 

just an ordinary fellow who completed his work.

~ Layman P'ang