Daily Zen - Monday, June 30

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, 

spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. 

There is no terrain you cannot overcome.

~ Irisa Hail

Weekend Zen, June 28-29

It is by practicing vulnerability of 

the heart that we discover courage.

~ Chogyam Trungpa

Daily Zen - Friday, June 27

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can 

only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is 

that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

~ Oscar Wilde

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 26

Just don't give up trying to do what you really 

want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, 

I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 25

Wealth and popularity gained through unsavory

means are but clouds floating in the sky.

~ Confucius 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 24

Happiness is lighter than a feather, no one can grasp it.

Suffering is heavier than the earth, no one can let it go.

~ Chuang Tzu

Daily Zen - Monday, June 23

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

~ Norman Vincent Peale 

Weekend Zen, June 21-22

Don't get so busy making a living 

that you forget to make a life. 

~ Dolly Parton

Daily Zen - Friday, June 20

You're bound to become a Buddha if you practice. 

If water drips long enough, even rocks wear through.

~ Shih-Wu

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 19

I know well that happiness is in little things.

~ John Ruskin

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 18

When you realize how perfect everything is

you will tilt your head and laugh at the sky.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 17

People are capable, at any time in their lives, 

of doing what they dream of.

~ Paulo Coelho 

Daily Zen - Monday, June 16

Jump into the dangerous current of the river, into civilization. Do not run away or hide in the mountains. 

Withdraw, but know how to return to others. 

~ Taisen Deshimaru

Weekend Zen, June 14-15

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. 

Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. 

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Daily Zen - Friday, June 13

Whatever a man wants he can obtain. That is why we must purify our desires that we may not want the wrong thing. 

~ Paramananda

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 12

We never realize ourselves so vividly as when 

we are in the full glow of love for others. 

~ Walter Rauschenbush

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 11

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's 

nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. 

~ Oscar Wilde

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 10

The more you love, the more love you have to give. 

It's the only feeling which is infinite.

~ Christina Westover

Daily Zen - Monday, June 9

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking 

and sings while it is still dark. 

~Rabindranath Tagore 

Weekend Zen, June 7-8

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

~ Nikki Giovanni

Daily Zen - Friday, June 6

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

~ Thomas Mann

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 5

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - 

I feel a little more at home in this universe, 

a little more comfortable in the nest. 

~ Bill Moyers

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 4

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.

~ Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 3

The glory is being happy. 

The glory is not winning here or winning there. 

The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, 

enjoying to work hard...

~ Rafael Nadal

Daily Zen - Monday, June 2

You are here for but an instant, and 

you mustn't take yourself too seriously.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs