Daily Zen - Friday, October 31

Light must come from inside.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche 

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 30

If you're funny, if there's something that makes 

you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

~ Tom Hanks

Daily Zen, Wednesday October 29

We can do no great things,

only small things with great love. 

~ Mother Teresa 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, October 28

Be not afraid of growing slowly,

be afraid only of standing still. 

~ Chinese Proverb

Daily Zen - Monday, October 27

The way of the warrior poses a challenge:

we must emerge from our cocoon and venture out

into space, displaying both mindfulness and kindness.

~ Chogyam Trungpa 

Weekend Zen, October 25-26

People, even more than things, have to be 

restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and 

redeemed; never throw out anyone.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Daily Zen - Friday, October 24

Think of the places where you plant your feet.

~ Inscription on the Door of Zen Dojos

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 23

If we take care of the moments,

the years will take care of themselves.

~ Maria Edgeworth

Daily Zen - Wednesday, October 22

There is no shame in having many 

faults; it would be more worrying

if there were none to correct.

~ Chinese Proverb

Daily Zen - Tuesday, October 21

Name and fame, praise and censure

can come and go like passing clouds.

But always remember the sun shining behind.

~ Sri Swami Satchidananda 

Daily Zen - Monday, October 20

Whatever you are, be a good one. 

~ Abraham Lincoln

Weekend Zen, October 18-19

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength,

and whosoever loves much performs much...

and what is done in love is well done.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Daily Zen - Friday, October 17

Each of us has an image of what we think we are or

what we should be, and that image, that picture, entirely 

prevents us from seeing ourselves as we actually are.

~ Krishnamurti

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 16

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

~ William Ellery Channing

Daily Zen - Wednesday, October 15

If you would be loved, 

love and be lovable.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Daily Zen - Tuesday, October 14

Overcome anger by love, evil by good, 

the greedy by generosity, and the liar by truth.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Monday, October 13

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny. 

~ David O. McKay

Weekend Zen, October 11-12

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a 

perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

~ Lin Yutang

Daily Zen - Friday, October 10

Only one who observes the evolution of the world 

and adapts to it constantly can make use of it. 

~ Chuang Tzu

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 9

If you love life, life will love you back. 

~ Arthur Rubinstein

Daily Zen - Wednesday, October 8

It is important to learn how to listen with compassion. 

Listening with compassion means listening 

with the will to relieve others of their suffering, 

without judging or seeking to argue.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Tuesday, October 7

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the 

loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

~ C.S. Lewis 

Daily Zen - Monday, October 6

Choice comes in two flavors: You can decide what you 

want to do and then go out and find it, or you can notice 

what you are already doing, and choose that. 

~ Tom Jackson

Weekend Zen, October 4-5

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. 

I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their

beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Daily Zen - Friday, October 3

Simplicity is the most difficult of all things.

~ Swami Ajaya

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 2

All thought, all passions, all delights,

Whatever stirs this mortal frame.

All are ministers of Love,

And feed his sacred flame.

~ Samuel Taylor Colerdige

Daily Zen - Wednesday, October 1

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of 

states we have to go through. Where people fail is that

 they wish to elect a state and remain in it. 

~ Anais Nin