Daily Zen - Monday, March 10

Do not go where the path may lead,

go instead where there is no path

and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Friday, February 7

Be silly.

Be honest.

Be kind.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Daily Zen - Friday, January 31

Finish each day and be done with it. 

You have done what you could; some 

blunders and absurdities have crept in; 

forget them as soon as you can. 

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall 

begin it serenely and with too high a spirit

 to be encumbered with your old nonsense. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 3

I wiped away the weeds and foam,

I fetched my sea-born treasures home;

But the poor, unsightly, noisome things

Had left their beauty on the shore,

With the sun and sand and the wild uproar.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Monday, July 15

When it is dark enough,

you can see the stars.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Zen, June 8-9

These roses under my window 

make no reference to former roses 

or to better ones; they are for what

they are...There is no time for them.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect

in every moment of its existence.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Monday, June 3

Make the most of yourself,

for that is all there is of you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 5

The only person you are destined

to become is the person

you decide to be.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Friday, February 9

Thought is the 

seed of action.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Monday, August 14

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

Daily Zen - Monday, June 26

What lies behind us

and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared

to what lies within.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Zen, February 25-26

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth

that around every circle another can be

 drawn; that there is no end in nature, 

but every end is a beginning; 

that there is always another dawn 

risen on mid-noon, and under 

every deep a lower deep opens.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Friday, January 20

Life is short but

there is always

time for courtesy.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Wednesday, January 11

Do not go where the path

may lead, go instead 

where there is no path

and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, October 13

The invariable mark of wisdom

is to see the miraculous

in the common.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 27

Adopt the pace of nature:

her secret is patience.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Friday, August 5

What you are

comes to you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 23

What you are

comes to you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 19

The only way to have 

a friend is to be one.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Daily Zen - Thursday, December 30

Nothing can bring you

happiness but yourself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson