The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, April 30
You are never given a dream without also
being given the power to make it true.
~ Richard Bach
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 29
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 28
You will never be happy if you continue
to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are
looking for the meaning of life.
~ Albert Camus
Monday, April 27, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, April 27
If you truly wish to practice, just let go of everything.
Know nothing, understand nothing.
~ Daie Soko
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Weekend Zen, April 25-26
There is just one life
for each of us: our own.
~ Euripides
Friday, April 24, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, April 24
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun,
to have lived light in the spring, to have loved,
to have thought, to have done.
~Matthew Arnold
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, April 23
For me, every hour is grace. I feel gratitude in my heart
each time I meet someone and look at his or her smile.
~ Elie Wiesel
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 22
The rain falls equally on all things.
~ Zen Saying
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 21
To be on a quest is nothing more or
less than to become an asker of questions.
~ Sam Keen
Monday, April 20, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, April 20
Peace begins with a smile.
~ Mother Teresa
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Weekend Zen, April 18-19
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
To live fully is to be in no-man's-land,
to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.
~ Pema Chodron
Friday, April 17, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, April 17
The curious paradox is that
when I accept myself just as I am,
then I can change.
~ Carl Rogers
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, April 16
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration:
set the kitchen timer for 20 minutes,
cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell,
simmer down and go about business as usual.
~ Phyllis Diller
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 15
The middle way is found between all opposites.
Rest in the middle and find well-being wherever you are.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 14
If you ask me what I came to do in this world,
I will answer you, "I am here to live out loud!"
~ Emile Zola
Monday, April 13, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, April 13
We're all only fragile threads,
but what a tapestry we make.
~ Jerry Ellis
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Weekend Zen, April 11-12
Always do right. This will gratify
some people and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain
Friday, April 10, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, April 10
Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.
~ Winston Churchill
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, April 9
Your only obligation in any lifetime
is to be true to yourself.
~ Richard Bach
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 8
My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old.
I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
~ Ryan White
Ryan White
died 25 years ago today.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 7
Our happiness depends on the
habit of mind we cultivate.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Monday, April 6, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, April 6
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
~ Maya Angelou
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Weekend Zen, April 4-5
If you ask people what kinds of activities bring
them pleasure, it's usually contact with nature,
things that are creative, and relationships with people.
The things we do to live simply
bring us all of those satisfactions.
~ Jeanne Roy
Friday, April 3, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, April 3
Stay close to any sounds that
make you glad you are alive.
~ Hafiz
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, April 2
You yourself,
as much as anybody
in the entire universe,
deserve your love and attention.
~ Buddha
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 1
A person's life purpose is nothing more than
to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love,
or passionate work, those one or two images
in the presence of which his heart first opened.
~ Albert Camus
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