The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Weekend Zen, January 30-31
If the sight of blue skies fill you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields
has power to move you, if the simple things
of nature have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~ Eleonora Duse
Friday, January 29, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, January 29
It is the sweet, simple things of life
which are the real ones after all.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, January 28
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 27
Kindness is always fashionable.
~ Amelia E.Barr
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 26
We all want to be recognized. We all want to be seen.
See me. See who I am. See I am awesome.
See I am important. See me!
This pitiful cry from the depths of our self,
this aspect of our deepest suffering.
~ Michael Kewley
Monday, January 25, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, January 25
The moment one gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
~ Henry Miller
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Weekend Zen, January 23-24
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves,
it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Friday, January 22, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, January 22
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity
to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform,
to love, and to be greater than our suffering.
~ Ben Okri
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, January 21
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no
concern to us; for while we exist death is not present,
and when death is present we no longer exist.
~ Epicurus
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 20
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
~ Walt Whitman
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 19
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in
humble places where other people see nothing.
~ Camille Pissarro
Monday, January 18, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, January 18
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...
get up in the morning and look at the world
in a way that takes nothing for granted.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Weekend Zen, January 16-17
Seize from every moment its unique novelty,
and do not prepare your joys.
~ André Gide
Friday, January 15, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, January 15
I find the best way to clear my mind
is to simply sit alone in silence.
~ William Chapman
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, January 14
Expect nothing.
Live frugally
on surprise.
~ Alice Walker
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 13
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves...
~ Pablo Neruda
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 12
The only freedom we've got is not to react to
anything, but to turn within and know the truth.
~ Robert Adams
Monday, January 11, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, January 11
Have a mind that is open to everything,
and attached to nothing.
~ Tilopa
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Weekend Zen, January 9-10
When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.
That is our way to live fully in each moment of time.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Friday, January 8, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, January 8
Meditation practice is not about trying to
throw ourselves away and become something better.
It's about befriending who we already are.
~ Pema Chodron
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, January 7
Don't just do something, sit there.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 6
Let silence take you to the core of life.
~ Rumi
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 5
You are not separate from the whole.
You are one with the sun, the earth,
the air. You don't have a life. You are life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Monday, January 4, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, January 4
Don't waste life in doubts and fears;
spend yourself on the work before you,
well assured that the right performance of
this hour's duties will be the best preparation
for the hours and ages that will follow it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Weekend Zen, January 2-3
To get the clearest and most efficient understanding
of a thing, therefore, it must be experienced personally.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Friday, January 1, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, January 1
All we have to decide is what to do
with the time that is given us.
~ J.R.R. Tolkein
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