Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 31

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Daily Zen - Monday, December 30

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

                              ~ John Fowles

Weekend Zen, December 28-29

One of the great things about art is you get to see what your concerns are, what those things tumbling around inside you are.

            ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Daily Zen - Friday, December 27

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

~ Henry David Thoreau

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 26

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. 

~ Socrates

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 25

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

            ~ Mother Teresa

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 24

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. 

~ Kahlil Gibran

Daily Zen - Monday, December 23

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

         ~ Charles Dickens

Weekend Zen, December 21-22

I don't want something special. 

I want something beautifully plain.

~ Anne Lamott

Daily Zen - Friday, December 20

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

               ~ Anne Lamott

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 19

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

~ Anne Lamott

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 18

You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

~ Anne Lamott

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 17

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

~ Anne Lamott

Daily Zen - Monday, December 16

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

~ Anne Lamott

Weekend Zen, December 14-15

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

~ Jim Harrison

Daily Zen - Friday, December 13

Don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 12

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

Daily Zen, Wednesday December 11

You can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

~ Anne Lamott

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 10

A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.

         ~ Jim Morrison

Daily Zen - Monday, December 9

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Weekend Zen, December 7-8 (RIP Nelson Mandela)

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

~ Nelson Mandela

Daily Zen - Friday, December 6 (RIP Nelson Mandela)

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

- Nelson Mandela

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 5

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

~ Marcel Proust

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 4

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

           ~ Kahlil Gibran


(Happy Birthday to my wonderful friend, Kyle Sheridan!)

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 3

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Zen - Monday, December 2

Constantly we are moulding our character and destiny by the thoughts we are thinking.

~ Paramananda