Weekend Zen, January 9-10

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

That is our way to live fully in each moment of time.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, January 8

Meditation practice is not about trying to 

throw ourselves away and become something better. 

It's about befriending who we already are.

~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 7

Don't just do something, sit there.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 6

Let silence take you to the core of life.

~ Rumi

Daily Zen - Tuesday, January 5

You are not separate from the whole.

You are one with the sun, the earth,

the air. You don't have a life. You are life.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Daily Zen - Monday, January 4

Don't waste life in doubts and fears;

spend yourself on the work before you,

well assured that the right performance of 

this hour's duties will be the best preparation 

for the hours and ages that will follow it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Zen, January 2-3

To get the clearest and most efficient understanding

of a thing, therefore, it must be experienced personally.

~ D.T. Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, January 1

All we have to decide is what to do

with the time that is given us. 

~ J.R.R. Tolkein

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 31

And now we welcome the new year, 

full of things that have never been. 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 30

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

~ Hugh Sidey

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 29

Chance is always powerful.

Let your hook be always cast.

In the pool where you least expect it,

there will be a fish.

~ Ovid

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

Weekend Zen, December 26-27

If you think adventure is dangerous, 

try routine. It is lethal.

~ Paulo Coelho

Daily Zen - Friday, December 25

Our task must be to widen our circle of compassion 

to embrace all living creatures 

and the whole of nature in its beauty. 

- Albert Einstein

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 24

Be an opener of doors...

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Wednesday, December 23

Only the hand that erases

can write the true thing.

~ Meister Echkart 

Daily Zen - Tuesday, December 22

Confidence, like art, never comes from

 having all the answers; it comes from 

being open to all the questions. 

~ Wallace Stevens

Daily Zen - Monday, December 21

Be --- don't try to become.

~ Osho

Weekend Zen, December 19-20

We do not need magic to change the world,

we carry all the power we need

 inside ourselves already.

We have the power to imagine better.

~ J.K. Rowling

Daily Zen - Friday, December 18

Do not travel far to other dusty lands,

forsaking your own sitting place;

if you cannot find the truth where 

you are now, you will never find it.

~ Dogen