Weekend Zen, November 29-30

If you're too busy to enjoy

life, you're too busy.

~ Jeff Davidson

Daily Zen - Friday, November 28

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. 

All things pass. Patience achieves everything.

~ Teresa of Ávila

(Happy Black Friday. Enjoy the Shopping.)

Thanksgiving Zen - Thursday, November 27

If the only prayer you said was thank you, 

that would be enough.

~ Meister Eckhart

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 26

Accept everything about yourself - I mean 

everything. You are you and that is the beginning 

and the end - no apologies, no regrets. 

~ Henry Kissinger

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 25

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone 

monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

~ Pericles

Daily Zen - Monday, November 24

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock,

don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes.

~ Osho

Weekend Zen, November 22-23

Little by little, one travels far.

~ J.R.R. Tolkein

Daily Zen - Friday, November 21

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

~ Langston Hughes

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 20

In this life of ours, others may help us, may

support us for a moment when we are fallen,

may seek to awaken us to our own true nature,

but realization must come from within.

~ Paramananda

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 19

Laughter is an instant vacation.

~ Milton Berle 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 18

Let us live happily then, not

hating those who hate us.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Monday, November 17

The wise man does not govern men from outside.

First he changes himself and then his influence spreads.

~ Chuang Tzu

Weekend Zen, November 15-16

Now and then it's good to pause in our

pursuit of happiness and just be happy. 

~ Guillaume Appolinaire

Daily Zen - Friday, November 14

To freely bloom -

that is my definition of success.

~ Gerry Spence

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 13

Truly nothing is to be expected

but the unexpected.

~ Alice James

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 12

You are only young once, and if

you do it right, once is enough.

~ Joe E. Lewis

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 11

There is only one quality worse than 

hardness of heart and that is softness of head. 

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Zen - Monday, November 10

Calm is the basis of right and

understanding. Calm is strength.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Weekend Zen, November 8-9

You're never too old to become younger.

~ Mae West

Daily Zen - Friday, November 7

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish 

is strong enough. What do you want to do? That's what 

I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 6

We must find the Middle Way,

without going to one side or the other,

but bringing the two together. 

~Taisen Deshimaru

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 5

What else is love but understanding and

rejoicing in the fact that another person lives,

acts, and experiences otherwise than we do 

and crosswise to our purposes?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 4

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, 

and see yourself running with them. 

~ Marcus Aurelius  

Daily Zen - Monday, November 3

Opportunities are multiplied as they are seized.

~ Sun Tzu

Weekend Zen, November 1-2

To reflect is to reflect on the most 

subtle details of one's actions.

~ Tseng-Tzu