Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 28

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,

but to live in a way that respects and enhances

the freedom of others.

~ Nelson Mandela

Daily Zen - Monday, February 27

Dare to be what you are, 

and learn to resign with

a good grace all that you

are not and to believe in

your own individuality.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Weekend Zen, February 25-26

Coming and going, 

life and death:

A thousand hamlets,

a million houses.

Don't you get the point?

Moon in the water, blossom in the sky.

~ Gizan

Daily Zen - Friday, February 24

We can learn to see each other

and see ourselves in each other

and recognize that human beings

are more alike than we are unalike.

~ Maya Angelou

Daily Zen - Thursday, February 23

I'm awake; I am in the world —

I expect no further assurance.

~ Louise Glück

Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 22

No one has ever 

become poor by giving.

~ Anne Frank

Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 21

A mind that is burdened with the past is a sorrowful mind.

- Krishnamurti

Daily Zen - Monday, February 20

What do we live for, if it's not to 

make life less difficult for each other?

~ George Eliot

Weekend Zen, February 18-19

Take hold of your own life. 

See that the whole existence is celebrating. 

These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.

The rivers and the oceans are wild, everywhere there is fun,

everywhere these is joy and delight. Watch existence, 

listen to the existence and become part of it.

~ Osho

Daily Zen - Friday, February 17

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;

courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

~ Winston Churchill

Daily Zen - Thursday, February 16

Bringing joy to one heart with love is better 

than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 15

Never let the odds keep you from doing

what you know in your heart

you were meant to do.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 14

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Daily Zen - Monday, February 13

Without ambition one starts nothing.

Without work one finishes nothing.

The prize will not be sent to you.

You have to win it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Zen, February 11-12

Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk

in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment... 

It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have 

multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings 

no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be 

afraid of spending quality time by yourself. 

Find meaning or don't find meaning, but "steal" some time 

and give it freely and exclusively to your own self.

~ Albert Camus

Daily Zen - Friday, February 10

Three things cannot be long hidden:

the sun, the moon, and the truth.

~ Buddha

Daily Zen - Thursday, February 9

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 - Wednesday, February 8

When it is dark enough,

you can see the stars.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 7

When you realize nothing is lacking,

the whole world belongs to you. 

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Monday, February 6

Here is what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. 

A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, 

the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think 

you'd care so very much about those things if you 

blew an aneurysm one afternoon, 

or found a lump in your breast?

~ Anna Quindlen

Weekend Zen, February 4-5

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to 

make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Friday, February 3

And you ask 

"What if I fall?"

Oh but my darling,

What if you fly?

~ Erin Hanson

Daily Zen - Thursday, February 2

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference. 

~ Robert Frost

Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 1

Doubt kills more dreams

than failure ever will.

~ Karim Seddiki