Daily Zen - Thursday, June 30

Live your life and forget your age.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 29

The only person you are destined to become

is the person you decide to be. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 28

There is only one way to happiness and 

that is to cease worrying about things 

which are beyond the power of our will.

~ Epictetus 

Daily Zen - Monday, June 27

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering

you run away from, which follows you everywhere.

And there is the suffering you face directly,

and in doing so become free.

~ Ajahn Chah

Weekend Zen, June 25-26

Nature is painting for us, day after day,

pictures of infinite beauty if only we

have the eyes to see them. 

~ John Ruskin

Daily Zen - Friday, June 24

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. 

~ Josh Billings 

(aka Henry Wheeler Shaw)

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 23

When you feel like giving up, remember why 

you held on for so long in the first place.

~ Author Unknown

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 22

Be kind, for everyone you meet

is fighting a hard battle.

~ Ian MacLaren

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 21

Joy is being willing for things 

to be as they are.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Monday, June 20

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of 

all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: 

It is this that in all things distinguishes

the strong soul from the weak.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Weekend Zen, June 18-19

Lift up your hearts.

Each new hour holds new

chances for new beginnings.

~ Maya Angelou

Daily Zen - Friday, June 17

Give yourself a break....Park your car somewhere;

just sit; just be. You begin to pick up on clouds,

sunshine and weather, the mountains, your past.

You begin to pick up on a lot of things. Just let 

them pass like the chatter of a brook as it hits the rocks.

We have to give ourselves some time to be.

~ Chogyam Trungpa

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 16

When you get out of the driver's seat, 

you find that life can drive itself,

that actually life has always been driving itself.

Life begins to flow, and you 

never know where it will take you.

~Adyashanti

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 15

Being aware of your breath forces you 

into the present moment.

Whenever you are conscious of the breath,

you are absolutely present.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 14

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have

and take the step into the darkness of the unknown,

we must believe that one of two things will happen.

There will be something solid for us to stand on

 or we will be taught to fly.

~ Patrick Overton

Daily Zen - Monday, June 13

When you arise in the morning, 

think of what a precious privilege

it is to be alive - to breathe,

to think, to enjoy, to love. 

~ Marcus Aurelius

Weekend Zen, June 11-12

Love the world and yourself in it, 

move through it as though it offers no resistance, 

as though the world is your natural element.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Daily Zen - Friday, June 10

All things are in the universe,

and the universe is in all things:

we in it, and it in us, and in this way

everything harmonizes in perfect unity.

~ Giordano Bruno

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 9

There are two ways to live:

you can live as if nothing is a miracle;

you can live as if everything is a miracle.

~ Albert Einstein

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 8

We may go to the moon, 

but that's not very far.

The greatest distance we have 

to cover still lies within us.

~ Charles de Gaulle

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 7

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive

is devoid of the power to love. 

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Daily Zen - Monday, June 6

Act happy, feel happy, be happy,

without a reason in the world.

Then you can love and do what you will.

~ Dan Millman

Weekend Zen, June 4-5

It is not the mountains

we conquer but ourselves.

~ Sir Edmund Hillary

Daily Zen - Friday, June 3

The whole world is you,

yet you keep thinking there

is something else.

~ Hsueh-Feng

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 2

Maybe you are searching among the branches 

for what only appears in the roots.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 1

Make all you can,

save all you can,

give all you can.

~ John Wesley