Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 18

When one is quiet, 

then something

wakes up inside one,

something happy and

quiet like the stars.

~ William Butler Yeats

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 20

When one gets quiet, 

then something wakes up

inside one, something happy

and quiet like the stars.

~ William Butler Yeats

Daily Zen - Thursday, August 27

When one gets quiet,

then something wakes up

inside one, something 

happy and quiet

like the stars.

~ William Butler Yeats

Daily Zen - Monday, September 28

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that
but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

~ William Butler Yeats

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 17

We can make our minds so like still water that beings 

gather round us that they may see... their own images,

and so live for a moment with a clearer, 

perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. 

~ William Butler Yeats

Daily Zen - Monday, July 22

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

~ William Butler Yeats

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 14

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

            ~ William Butler Yeats

St. Patrick's Day Zen, March 17-18

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. 

                     - William Butler Yeats

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. 

                     - Samuel Beckett

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 20

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet.

                        - William Butler Yeats