Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 30

We all derive from the same source. 

There is no mystery about the origin of things.

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians;

we have only to open up, 

only to discover what is already there.

~ Henry Miller

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 29

The quieter you become

the more you can hear.

~ Ram Dass

Daily Zen - Monday, November 28

Be less curious about people

and more curious about ideas.

~ Marie Curie

Weekend Zen, November 26-27

I don't know anything with certainty,

but seeing the stars makes me dream.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Daily Zen - Friday, November 25

Go deeper...

Past thoughts into silence.

Past silence into stillness.

Past stillness into the heart.

Let love consume all that is left of you.

~ Kabir

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 24 (Thanksgiving)

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling 

like you should be elsewhere,

doing something else,

being someone else.

~ Isaac Asimov

(Happy Thanksgiving)

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 23

As your faith is strengthened you will find that 

there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, 

that things will flow as they will, and 

that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

~ Emmanuel Teney

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 22

Courage is the discovery that you may not win,

and trying when you know you can lose.

~ Tom Krause

Daily Zen - Monday, November 21

Every man, when he gets quiet, 

when he becomes desperately honest with himself, 

is capable of uttering profound truths. 

~ Henry Miller

Weekend Zen, November 19-20

Find out who you are 

and do it on purpose.

~ Dolly Parton

Daily Zen - Friday, November 18

Gratitude is the fairest blossom

which springs from the soul.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 17

When you've hit bottom in your life and are suffering deeply,

that's the time to be strong. Don't give up; instead, look at yourself and say, "Enough is enough. I won't get caught 

in this pattern again. Today is the day it ends."

~ Dzogchen Ponloe Rinpoche

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 16

No amount of anxiety makes any difference

to anything that is going to happen.

~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 15

Even the wisest mind has something yet to learn.

~ George Santayana 

Daily Zen - Monday, November 14

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do

is simply to look through our own eyes, see with 

the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Weekend Zen, November 12-13

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows

into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness

into you and the storms their energy, while cares

will drop off like autumn leaves.

~ John Muir

Daily Zen - Friday, November 11

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.

Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

~ Bette Smith

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 10

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you have imagined.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 9

There are years that ask questions

and years that answer. 

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 8

In the sweetness of friendship

let there be laughter and 

the sharing of pleasures.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Daily Zen - Monday, November 7

As great scientists have said, and as all children know,

it is above all by the imagination that we

achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

~ Ursula Le Guin

Weekend Zen, November 5-6

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is a sort of splendid torch which I am

permitted to hold for the moment,

and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Daily Zen - Friday, November 4

All journeys have secret destinations

of which the traveler is unaware.

~ Martin Buber

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 3

No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. 

Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself 

how is it you want to live your life.

We live and we die, this is the truth 

that we can only face alone.

No one can help us, not even the Buddha. 

So consider carefully, what prevents you from 

living the way you want to live your life?

~ Dalai Lama

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 2

Far and away the best prize that life offers

is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Zen - Tuesday, November 1

Life is what we make it, 

always has been, always will be.

~ Grandma Moses