Daily Zen - Thursday, December 17

Don't be scared to walk alone.

Don't be scared to like it.

~ John Mayer

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 16

If we forgive life for not being what we told it to be,

or expected, or wished, or longed for it to be, we forgive 

ourselves for not being what we might have been also.

And then we can be what we are, which is boundless.

~ John Tarrant

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 15

If you can't figure out your purpose, 

figure out your passion. For your passion

will lead you right into your purpose.

~ T.D. Jakes

Daily Zen - Monday, December 14

I don't want to earn a living;

I want to live.

~ Oscar Wilde

Weekend Zen, December 12-13

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

~ Deepak Chopra

Daily Zen - Friday, December 11

In three words I can sum up

everything I've learned about life:

It goes on.

~ Robert Frost

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 10

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly.

Let it cut more deep. 

Let it ferment and season you

as few human or even divine ingredients can.

~Hafiz

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 9

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. 

If you go off into a far, far forest and 

get very quiet, you'll come to understand that 

you're connected with everything.

~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 8

Surrender to what is.

Let go of what was.

Have faith in what will be.

~ Sonia Ricotti

Daily Zen - Monday, December 7

I shall either find a way or make one.

~ Hannibal

Weekend Zen, December 5-6

The time you enjoy wasting

is not wasted time. 

~ Bertrand Russell

Daily Zen - Friday, December 4

Not thinking about anything is Zen.

Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting

or lying down, everything you do is Zen. 

~ Bodhidarma

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 3

There would seem to be nothing more obvious,

more tangible and palpable, than the present moment.

And yet it eludes us completely. 

All the sadness of life lies in that fact.

~ Milan Kundera

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 2

It takes courage to grow up 

and be who you really are.

~ e.e. cummings

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 1

The only thing that we can know 

is that we know nothing 

and that is the highest flight of reason.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Daily Zen - Monday, November 30

Your present circumstances don't determine where 

you can go; they merely determine where you start.

~ Nido Qubein

Weekend Zen, November 28-29

I should be content to look at a mountain for 

what it is and not as a comment on my life. 

~ David Ignatow

Daily Zen - Friday, November 27

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. 

All things pass. Patience achieves everything.

~ Teresa of Ávila

(Happy Black Friday. Enjoy the Shopping.)

Daily Zen - Thursday, November 26

If the only prayer you said was thank you,

that would be enough.

~ Meister Eckhart

(Happy Thanksgiving!)

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 25

New beginnings are often 

disguised as painful endings.

~ Lao Tzu