Daily Zen Quote - July 31, 2016

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
~ Douglas Pagels

Daily Zen Quote - July 30, 2016

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
~Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 29, 2016

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
~ Dalai Lama

Daily Zen Quote - July 28, 2016

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - July 27, 2016

I gained nothing at all from supreme enlightenment and for that very reason it is called supreme enlightenment.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 26, 2016

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment...When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.
~ Miyamoto Musashi

Daily Zen Quote - July 25, 2016

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.
~ Hsi-Tang

Daily Zen Quote - July 24, 2016

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
~ St. Francis de Sales

Daily Zen Quote - July 23, 2016

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
~ Wayne W. Dyer

Daily Zen Quote - July 22, 2016

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
~ Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - July 21, 2016

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 20, 2016

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.
~ Old Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - July 19, 2016

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and chose the path that leads to wisdom.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 18, 2016

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 17, 2016

Courage is not doing something in the absence of fear but knowing that something else is more important than fear. So we do it.
~ Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Daily Zen Quote - July 16, 2016

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 15, 2016

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 14, 2016

Three things cannot hide for long: The moon, the sun and the truth.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 13, 2016

If I know I will die tomorrow, I can still learn something tonight.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 12, 2016

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 11, 2016

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 10, 2016

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
~ Arthur Helps

Daily Zen Quote - July 9, 2016

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.
~ Tibetan Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - July 8, 2016

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Daily Zen Quote - July 7, 2016

Silence is a source of great strength.
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - July 6, 2016

You will not be punished for you anger, you will be punished by your anger.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - July 5, 2016

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
~ Dalai Lama

Daily Zen Quote - July 4, 2016

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow out your candle.
~ Katherine Dunham

Daily Zen Quote - July 3, 2016

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
~ Osho

Daily Zen Quote - July 2, 2016

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~ Robert M. Pirsig

Daily Zen Quote - July 1, 2016

All that we are is the result of we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
~ Buddha