Daily Zen - Monday, August 31

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything

in order to achieve anything worth having.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Weekend Zen, August 29-30

In about the same degree as you are helpful,

you will be happy.

~ Karl Reiland

Daily Zen - Friday, August 28

We are like children building a sand castle. 

We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, 

and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours... 

Yet despite all our attachments, we know that the tide 

will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away.

The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and 

when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 27

It is our choices...that show what we truly are,

far more than our abilities. 

~ J.K. Rowling

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 26

The closer you get to real matter, 

rock air fire and wood,

boy, the more spiritual the world is.

~ Jack Kerouac

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 25

If you understand -- things are just as they are.

If you don't understand -- things are just as they are.

~ Zen Saying

Daily Zen - Monday, August 24

Happiness doesn't depend on 

who you are or what you have; 

it depends solely on what you think.

~ Dale Carnegie

Weekend Zen, August 22-23

Life is full of beauty.

NOTICE IT.

Notice the bumblebee, the small child, 

and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, 

and feel the wind. Live your life to the 

fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. 

~ Ashley Smith

Daily Zen - Friday, August 21

Pain is physical, suffering is mental... Suffering is due 

entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of 

our unwillingness to move, to flow with life.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 20

None is richer than he who

simply has peace of mind. 

~ Maj Wambebe

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 19

A difficult thing it is to be born as a human

and every man who floats lazily through

this world must sink to the depths again.

~ Saigyō

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 18

What you are comes to you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Monday, August 17

What is the meaning of life? That was all -- 

a simple question; one that tended to close in 

on one with years. The great revelation had never come... 

...instead there were little daily miracles,

illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

~ Virginia Woolf

Weekend Zen, August 15-16

I go to nature to be soothed and healed,

and to have my senses put in order.

~ John Burroughs

Daily Zen - Friday, August 14

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more 

beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important

discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

~ André Gide

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 13

We can always begin again.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 12

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary

 to which you can retreat at any time.

~ Hermann Hesse

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 11

Do not look at the faults of others, 

or what others have done or not done;

observe what you yourself have done and not done.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Monday, August 10

Use what talents you possess; 

the woods would be very silent if no birds 

sang there except those that sang best.

~ Henry van Dyke

Weekend Zen, August 8-9

Happiness is where we find it, 

but rarely where we seek it.

~ J. Petit-Senn

Daily Zen - Friday, August 7

Always be a little kinder than necessary. 

~ J.M. Barrie

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 6

Once you stop clinging and let things be,

you'll be free, even of birth and death.

You'll transform everything.

~ Bodhidharma

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 5

The greatest discovery of my generation is 

that human beings can alter their lives 

by altering their attitudes of mind.

~ William James

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 4

One half of knowing what you want is knowing

what you must give up before you get it.

~ Sidney Howard

Daily Zen - Monday, August 3

We do not remember days,

we remember moments.

~ Cesare Pavese

Weekend Zen, August 1-2

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that

which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, 

that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is 

conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

~ David Steindl-Rast