The Way Things Turn
Politics, culture, and other best laid plans.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, February 29
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity
and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
~ Alan Watts
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Weekend Zen, February 27-28
Whatever is happening
is the path to enlightenment.
~ Pema Chodron
Friday, February 26, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, February 26
Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Johann von Goethe
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, February 25
I shall be telling this with a sigh.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 24
Only those who have the patience to do
simple things perfectly will acquire
the skill to do difficult things easily.
~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 23
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about,
and it doesn't matter. Explore the world.
Nearly everything is really interesting
if you go into it deeply enough.
~ Richard Feynman
Monday, February 22, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, February 22
There is no perfection, only life.
~ Milan Kundera
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Weekend Zen, February 20-21
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work and
that when we no longer know which way to go
we have begun our real journey.
~ Wendell Berry
Friday, February 19, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, February 19
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents
that press upward from the unconscious.
~ Carl Jung
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, February 18
It's all about paying attention.
Attention is vitality.
It connects you with others.
~ Susan Sontag
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 17
Happiness comes when your work and words
are of benefit to yourself and others.
~ Buddha
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 16
If we understood ourselves better,
we would damage ourselves less.
~ James Baldwin
Monday, February 15, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, February 15
Life simply is. It follows its course.
Give yourself to the moment.
Let life reveal itself to you.
~ Jerry Brown
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Weekend Zen, February 13-14
Everything changes, but wisdom stays the same.
Live with love and be aware --- no more is needed.
~ Michael Kewley
Friday, February 12, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, February 12
I don't know whether I believe in God or not.
I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist.
But the essential thing is to put oneself in
a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
~ Henri Matisse
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, February 11
There's no such thing as ruining your life.
Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 10
One of the secrets of a happy life
is continuous small treats.
~ Iris Murdoch
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 9
We could never learn to be brave and patient
if there were only joy in the world.
~ Helen Keller
Monday, February 8, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, February 8
Rather than stressing or worrying about the future,
just trust in the unfolding of the moment.
~ Mark Hyman
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Weekend Zen, February 6-7
Yet it is our idleness, in our dreams,
that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~ Virginia Woolf
Friday, February 5, 2016
Daily Zen - Friday, February 5
Having precise ideas often leads
to a man doing nothing.
~ Paul Valéry
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Daily Zen - Thursday, February 4
How could there be any question of acquiring or
possessing, when the one thing needful
for a man is to
become
--- to be at last,
and to die in the fullness of his being.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 3
An intense love of solitude, distaste for involvement
in worldly affairs, persistence in knowing the Self...
... all this is called true knowledge.
~ The Bhagavad Gita
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 2
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~ George Eliot
Monday, February 1, 2016
Daily Zen - Monday, February 1
Man cannot discover new oceans unless
he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ André Gide
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