Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 31

It was only a sunny smile, 

and little it cost in the giving, 

but like morning light 

it scattered the night

and made the day worth living.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Monday, March 30

Everything we do is futile,

but we must do it anyway.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Weekend Zen, March 28-29

New beauty meets us at 

every step in all our wanderings.

~ John Muir

Daily Zen - Friday, March 27

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.

Go forward and make your dreams come true.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 26

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 25

Tell people about your religion 

without the use of your tongue.

~ Imam Ja'Far Al-Sadiq

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 24

It's not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to 

see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is.

~ Ajahn Sumedo

Daily Zen - Monday, March 23

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit:

we cannot flower and grow without it. 

~ Jess Lair

Weekend Zen, March 21-22

Nature does not hurry, 

yet everything is accomplished.

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Friday, March 20

Why not go out on a limb? 

That's where all the fruit is.

~ Will Rogers

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 19

Not what we have, but what we enjoy

constitutes our abundance.

~ Epicurus

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 18

When you are content to be simply yourself

and don't compare or compete, 

everybody will respect you. 

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 17

New growth happens in directions

we never could have imagined.

~ Robin Pickens

Daily Zen - Monday, March 16

The happiness of your life depends 

upon the quality of your thoughts.

~ Marcus Aurelius 

Weekend Zen, March 14-15

When you go out into the world,

it's best to hold hands and stick together.

~ Robert Fulghum

Daily Zen - Friday, March 13

This very moment is the perfect teacher,

and lucky for us it's with us wherever we are.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 12

Of all the ways to avoid living,

perfect discipline is the most admired.

~ James Richardson

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 11

When we do the best we can, 

we never know what miracle is wrought 

in our life, or in the life of another. 

~ Helen Keller

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 10

Our worth comes not from the amount of 

our involvements, achievements, or possessions, 

but from the depth and care which we bring 

to each moment, place, and person in our lives.

~ Richard A. Bower

Daily Zen - Monday, March 9

Do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain

common work as it comes, certain that daily duties 

and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Weekend Zen, March 7-8

Let there be

an opening

into the quiet

that lies beneath 

the chaos,

where you find 

the peace

you did not think

possible

and see what shimmers

within the storm.

                                                              ~ Jan Richardson

Daily Zen - Friday, March 6

Joy in looking and comprehending

 is nature's most beautiful gift.

~ Albert Einstein

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 5

I live in the open mindedness of

not knowing enough about anything.

~ Mary Oliver

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 4

Only in solitude do we find ourselves.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 3

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man;

true nobility is being superior to your former self.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Daily Zen - Monday, March 2

Do not be pushed by your problems.

Be led by your dreams.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson