The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, July 31
The farther you enter the truth,
the deeper it is.
~ Bankei
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 30
When you realize the fact that everything changes
and find your composure in it,
there you find yourself in nirvana.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 29
A thing long expected takes the form
of the unexpected when at last it comes.
~ Mark Twain
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 28
Getting over a painful experience
is much like crossing monkey bars.
You have to let go at some point
in order to move forward.
~ C.S. Lewis
Monday, July 27, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, July 27
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
~ Author Unknown
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Weekend Zen, July 25-26
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Friday, July 24, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, July 24
How do you let go of attachment to things?
Don't even try. It is impossible.
Attachment to things drops away by itself
when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
~ Alan Watts
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 23
Happy is he who forgets that
which cannot be changed.
~ Mark Twain
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 22
Anyone can live sweetly,
patiently, lovingly, purely,
'til the sun goes down.
And this is all that life really means.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 21
Easier to keep changing your life
than to live it.
~ James Richardson
Monday, July 20, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, July 20
The doors we open and close
each day decide the lives we live.
~ Flora Whittemore
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Weekend Zen, July 18-19
Simplicity is making the journey of this life
with just enough baggage.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
Friday, July 17, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, July 17
Be more concerned
with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
~ John Wooden
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 16
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
~ Josh Billings
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 15
Life is doubt
and faith without doubt
is nothing but death.
~ Miguel De Unamuno
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 14
The most creative act you will ever undertake
is the act of creating yourself.
~ Deepak Chopra
Monday, July 13, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, July 13
Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.
~ Berthold Auerbach
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Weekend Zen, July 11-12
Earth and sky, woods and fields,
lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea,
are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us
more than we can ever learn from books.
~ John Lubbock
Friday, July 10, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, July 10
The road reaches every place,
the short cut only one.
~ James Richardson
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 9
The best way to find yourself is to
lose yourself in the service of others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 8
Every situation - nay, every moment - is of infinite worth,
for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
~ Johann von Goethe
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 7
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked
with the peace of a contented spirit.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Monday, July 6, 2015
Daily Zen - Monday, July 6
Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.
~ Dalai Lama
(Happy 80th Birthday to HH the Dalai Lama!)
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Weekend Zen, July 4-5
How we spend our days is, of course,
how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Dillard
Friday, July 3, 2015
Daily Zen - Friday, July 3
The bad news is that you're falling through air,
nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is there's no ground.
~ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Daily Zen - Thursday, July 2
Not knowing how near the truth is
we seek it far away.
~ Hakuin
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 1
Everything in life is just for a while.
~ Philip K. Dick
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