Daily Zen - Monday, December 23

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

Help someone's soul heal. 

Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Monday, October 24

When you eventually see through

the veils to how things really are,

you will keep saying

 again and again,

"This was certainly not 

like we thought it was."

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Wednesday, October 5

Don't turn away.

Keep your gaze on

the bandaged place.

That's where the

light enters you.

~ Rumi

Weekend Zen, August 27-28

Be like a tree and let

the dead leaves drop.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Friday, April 22

You are not a drop in the ocean. 

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 8

There is a voice that

doesn't use words. 

Listen.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 29

What is your life about,

anyway? Nothing but a 

struggle to be someone. 

Nothing but a running 

from your own silence.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Tuesday, August 20

Look past your thoughts,

so you may drink the pure

nectar of this moment.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 11

Let yourself be silently drawn

by the stronger pull of 

what you really love.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 30

I have been a seeker and I still am,

but I stopped asking the books and the stars.

I started listening to the teaching of my soul.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Tuesday, October 31

Let the beauty of what 

you love be what you do.

~ Rumi

Weekend Zen, August 26-27

When I run after what I think I want,

my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;

if I sit in my own place of patience,

what I need flows to me, and without pain.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Thursday, February 16

Bringing joy to one heart with love is better 

than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 10

The moment you accept what troubles 

you've been given, the door will open.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Friday, December 23

Let yourself be silently drawn by

the strange pull of what you really love.

It will not lead you astray.

~ Rumi

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 - Thursday, June 2

Maybe you are searching among the branches 

for what only appears in the roots.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 23

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to

 change the world. Today I am wise, 

so I am changing myself. 

~ Rumi 

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 6

Let silence take you to the core of life.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Monday, December 28

The mystery does not get clearer 

by repeating the questions.

Nor is it bought by going to amazing places.

Until you've kept your eyes and your wanting still for 

fifty years, you don't begin to cross over from confusion.

~ Rumi