Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 31

Who are you in the silence

between your thoughts?

~ Gil Fronsdal

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 30

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world.

Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as 

joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in 

enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but 

rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

~ Vaclav Havel 

Daily Zen - Monday, August 29

Nothing is a waste of time

if you use the experience wisely.

~ Auguste Rodin

Weekend Zen, August 27-28

Encouragement is the 

oxygen of the soul. 

~ George M. Adams

Daily Zen - Friday, August 26

Wisdom tells me I am nothing.

Love tells me I am everything.

Between the two my life flows.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 25

Sorrow is how we learn to love. 

Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts 

because it's getting larger. The larger 

it gets, the more love it holds.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 24

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, 

as if it were necessary to understand, 

when it is simply necessary to love. 

~ Claude Monet

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 23

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. 

No need for complicated philosophy. 

Your own mind, your own heart is the temple; 

the philosophy is simple kindness.

~ Dalai Lama

Daily Zen - Monday, August 22

Individual commitment to a group effort --- 

that is what makes a team work, a company work, 

a society work, a civilization work.

~ Vince Lombardi

Weekend Zen, August 20-21

It is what I was born for ---

to look, to listen,

to lose myself

inside this world ---

to instruct myself

over and over...

~ Mary Oliver

Daily Zen - Friday, August 19

Be grateful for what you have; 

you'll end up having more.

If you concentrate on what you don't have,

you will never, ever have enough.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 18

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is 

a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some 

momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. 

Welcome and entertain them all, treat each guest honorably.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them 

at the door laughing, and invite them in. 

Be grateful for whoever comes, 

because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

~Rumi

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 17

Life's blows cannot break a person whose 

spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 16

For small creatures such as we

the vastness is bearable only through love.

~ Carl Sagan

Daily Zen - Monday, August 15

The past is a guidepost,

not a hitching post.

~ L. Thomas Holdcroft

Weekend Zen, August 13-14

The secret of genius is to carry 

the spirit of the child into old age,

which means never losing your enthusiasm.

~ Aldous Huxley

Daily Zen - Friday, August 12

If you don't like the road you're walking,

start paving another one.

~ Dolly Parton

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 11

Life is but thought.

~ Sara Tisdale

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 10

If you wish to be loved, love.

~ Seneca

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 9

What we have to be

is what we are.

~ Thomas Merton

Daily Zen - Monday, August 8

The world is ruled by

letting things take their course.

~ Lao Tzu

Weekend Zen, August 6-7

Beauty is not caused. It is.

~ Emily Dickinson

Daily Zen - Friday, August 5

Life is a great big canvas,

and you should throw all 

the paint you can on it.

~ Danny Kaye

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 4

He who is afraid to ask

is ashamed of learning.

~ Danish Proverb

Daily Zen - Wednesday, August 3

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed 

by our tears once in a while, 

so that we can see life with a clearer view again.

~ Alex Tan

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 2

Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will 

be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

~ Rose Pastor Stokes

Daily Zen - Monday, August 1

How wonderful that no one need wait 

a single moment to improve the world. 

~ Anne Frank