Weekend Zen, April 30 - May1

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current.

It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are,

you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

~ Joanne Harris

Daily Zen - Friday, April 29

I don't have to be anything at all.

I don't even have to be myself, 

because there is no such thing as not 

being myself. I am inescapably myself. 

~ Mooji

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 28

A good friend is a connection to life,

a tie to the past, a road to the future,

the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

~ Lois Wyse

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 27

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; 

but do not let them master you. Let them teach

you patience, sweetness, insight...

~ Helen Keller

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 26

Always remember to be happy because you never 

know who's falling in love with your smile.

~ Author Unknown

Daily Zen - Monday, April 25

You must live in the present,

launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Weekend Zen, April 23-24

A sense of humor...is needed armor. 

Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips

is a sign that the person down deep

has a pretty good grasp of life.

~ Hugh Sidey

Daily Zen - Friday, April 22

My mission in life is not merely to survive,

but to thrive; and to do so with some passion,

some compassion, some humor, and some style.

~ Maya Angelou

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 21

Life is painful,

suffering is optional.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 20

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a

genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~ William Morris

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 19

The best day of your life is the one on which 

you decide your life is your own. No apologies 

or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.

The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - 

and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.

This is the day your life really begins.

~ Bob Moawad

Daily Zen - Monday, April 18

One day in retrospect the years of struggle

will strike you as the most beautiful. 

~ Sigmund Freud

Weekend Zen, April 16-17

Good, better, best.

Never let it rest.

Until your good is better

and your better is best.

~ Attributed to Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs

(true origin unknown)

Daily Zen - Friday, April 15

People, even more than things, have to 

be restored, renewed, revived,

reclaimed, and redeemed;

never throw out anyone. 

~ Audrey Hepburn

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 14

Less and less do you need to force things,

until finally you arrive at non-action. 

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 13

We've got to live no matter 

how many skies have fallen.

~ D.H. Lawrence

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 12

To be rich in admiration and free from envy,

to rejoice greatly in the good of others,

to love with such generosity of heart that your 

love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness

--- these are the gifts which money cannot buy.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Daily Zen - Monday, April 11

Remember this --- very little is 

needed to make a happy life.

~ Marcus Aurelius 

Weekend Zen, April 9-10

Now there is only one demand, and that is to be alive;

there to give life, there to receive life, and there to let it hurt,

 and there to let it feel good. To dare, my love.

~ Ingmar Bergman

Daily Zen - Friday, April 8

Fear is a natural reaction to 

moving closer to the truth.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 7

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken.

This moment is the exact place to practice

compassion and loving awareness. 

You have all the ingredients to breathe and 

find freedom just where you are.

~ Jack Kornfield

Daily Zen - Wednesday, April 6

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. 

It turns what we have into enough.

~ Melody Beattie

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 5

How many cares one loses when one decides

not to be something but to be someone.

~ Coco Chanel

Daily Zen - Monday, April 4

A man knows when he has found his

vocation when he stops thinking about

how to live and begins to live.

~ Thomas Merton

Weekend Zen, April 2-3

He who wishes to secure the good of 

others, has already secured his own. 

~ Confucius

Daily Zen - Friday, April 1

How beautiful that possibility lives 

within each and everyone of us. 

~ Robin Pickens