Daily Zen Quote - December 31, 2017

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.
~ Zen Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - December 30, 2017

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
~ Rumi

Daily Zen Quote - December 29, 2017

Pain is certain
Suffering is optional.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - December 28, 2017

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly,
our whole life would change.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - December 27, 2017

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - December 26, 2017

See the false as false,
The true as true.
Look into your heart.
Follow your nature.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - December 25, 2017

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - December 24, 2017

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
~ Bob Hope

Daily Zen Quote - December 23, 2017

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - December 22, 2017

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - December 21, 2017

The creatures that inhabit this earth, be they human beings or animals, are here to contribute each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - December 20, 2017

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your own path.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - December 19, 2017

I think as you grow older, your Christmas list gets smaller and the things you really want for the holidays can't be bought.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - December 18, 2017

Knowledge is learning something every day.
Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
~ Zen Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - December 17, 2017

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~ Burton Hillis

Daily Zen Quote - December 16, 2017

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~ Mary Ellen Chase

Daily Zen Quote - December 15, 2017

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

Daily Zen Quote - December 14, 2017

Christmas is not a time near a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Daily Zen Quote - December 13, 2017

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
~ Winston Churchill

Daily Zen Quote - December 12, 2017

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing others' loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.
~ W.C. Jones

Daily Zen Quote - December 11, 2017

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand to hand.
~ Dr. Seuss

Daily Zen Quote - December 10, 2017

Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - December 9, 2017

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to help you grow.
~ Caroline Myss

Daily Zen Quote - December 8, 2017

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
~ Robin Williams

Daily Zen Quote - December 7, 2017

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building the new.
~ Socrates

Daily Zen Quote - December 6, 2017

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Jimmy Dean

Daily Zen Quote - December 5, 2017

Progress is impossible without change, and those minds who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Daily Zen Quote - December 4, 2017

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~ Andy Warhol

Daily Zen Quote - December 3, 2017

Every moment that changes your life. Changes who you are.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - December 2, 2017

When life changes to be harder, change yourself to be stronger. What hurts you today, makes you stronger tomorrow.
~ Edwin Mamerto

Daily Zen Quote - December 1, 2017

Be a good person but don't waste time to prove it
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 30, 2017

Stay positive even when it feels like your whole world is falling apart.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 29, 2017

Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
~ Bruce Lee

Daily Zen Quote - November 28, 2017

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
~ Susan Gale

Daily Zen Quote - November 27, 2017

Anyone can give up; it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, that's true strength.
~ Chris Bradford

Daily Zen Quote - November 26, 2017

Be thankful for your life, spend time in nature, breathe deeply, let go of your worries, forgive yourself and others, and build your life around what you love.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 25, 2017

The more you thank life, the more life gives you to be thankful for.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 24, 2017

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~ Cynthia Ozick

Daily Zen Quote - November 23, 2017

Give thanks for each new morning with it's light,
for rest and shelter of the night,
for health and food
for love and friends
for everything thy goodness sense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Daily Zen Quote - November 22, 2017

Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time. It's about loving what you have and being grateful for it.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 21, 2017

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing.
~ Camille Pissaro

Daily Zen Quote - November 20, 2017

I am thankful for my struggle, because without it I wouldn't have stumbled across my strength
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 19, 2017

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
~ Gerald Good

Daily Zen Quote - November 18, 2017

The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
~ Charles Schwab

Daily Zen Quote - November 17, 2017

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
~ William Bennett

Daily Zen Quote - November 16, 2017

I'm thankful for every moment.
~ Al Green

Daily Zen Quote - November 15, 2017

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Daily Zen Quote - November 14, 2017

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde

Daily Zen Quote - November 13, 2017

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
~ Charles Spurgeon

Daily Zen Quote - November 12, 2017

She needed a hero, so that's what she became.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 11, 2017

It is not what you are that holds you back, it is what you think you are not.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 10, 2017

And one day she discovered that she was fierce,
and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.
~ Mark Anthony

Daily Zen Quote - November 9, 2017

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
~ Ivanla Vanzant

Daily Zen Quote - November 8, 2017

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
~ Brene Brown

Daily Zen Quote - November 7, 2017

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
~ Marcus Garvey

Daily Zen Quote - November 6, 2017

Don't ever doubt your worth.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 5, 2017

Pay attention to the things you are naturally drawn to. They are often connected to your path, passion, and purpose in life. Have the courage to follow them.
~ Ruben Chavez

Daily Zen Quote - November 4, 2017

Sometimes you have to lose yourself to discover who you might yet be. Sometimes what feels like breaking down is really just breaking free.
~ Cristen Rodgers

Daily Zen Quote - November 3, 2017

And if I asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - November 2, 2017

When your world moves too fast
and you lose yourself in the chaos,
introduce yourself
to each color of the sunset.
Reacquaint yourself with the earth
beneath your feet.
Thank the air that surrounds you
with every breath you take.
Find yourself in the appreciation of life.
~ Christy Ann Martine

Daily Zen Quote - November 1, 2017

Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to be.
~ Mandy Hale

Daily Zen Quote - October 31, 2017

Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - October 30, 2017

Finding your passion isn't just about careers or money. It's about finding your authentic self - the one you've buried beneath other people's needs.
~ Kristin Hannah

Daily Zen Quote - October 29, 2017

Word hard, have fun, no drama.
~ Cheryl Richardson

Daily Zen Quote - October 28, 2017

Work is much more fun that fun.
~ Noel Coward

Daily Zen Quote - October 27, 2017

My work is a game, a very serious game.
~ MC Escher

Daily Zen Quote - October 26, 2017

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.
~ Kenneth Blanchard

Daily Zen Quote - October 25, 2017

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
~ Jerry West

Daily Zen Quote - October 24, 2017

Excellence is not being the best; it is doing your best.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - October 23, 2017

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
~ Steve Jobs

Daily Zen Quote - October 22, 2017

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
~ Henry Ford

Daily Zen Quote - October 21, 2017

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
~ Chin-Ning Chu

Daily Zen Quote - October 20, 2017

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
~ Robert Kiyosaki

Daily Zen Quote - October 19, 2017

Life is not about finding yourself. Life ia about creating yourself.
~ Lolly Daskal

Daily Zen Quote - October 18, 2017

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people get, is taking a bite out of you.
~ Zig Ziglar

Daily Zen Quote - October 17, 2017

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
~ Dr. APJ Kalam

Daily Zen Quote - October 16, 2017

If you lose someone but you find yourself you won
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - October 15, 2017

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ C.S. Lewis

Daily Zen Quote - October 14, 2017

Today is a blank page in your life story. What will you write in it?
~ Sonya Parker

Daily Zen Quote - October 13, 2017

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
~ Loius L'Amour

Daily Zen Quote - October 12, 2017

The beginning is always today.
~ Mary Shelley

Daily Zen Quote - October 11, 2017

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - October 10, 2017

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
~ Meister Eckhart

Daily Zen Quote - October 9, 2017

Every moment is a fresh beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot

Daily Zen Quote - October 8, 2017

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - October 7, 2017

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - October 6, 2017

To be kind is more important than to be right.
Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - October 5, 2017

Your mind is your private sanctuary, do not allow the negative beliefs of others to occupy it.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - October 4, 2017

Beauty is about living your life,
being happy with yourself
inside and out, and not
worrying about what
other people think of you.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - October 3, 2017

Patience is key.
Remember:
A jug fills drop by drop
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - October 2, 2017

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - October 1, 2017

Change is the law of life.
~ John F. Kennedy

Daily Zen Quote - September 30, 2017

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Daily Zen Quote - September 29, 2017

Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn't want to feel like that anymore, or ever again.
So I changed.
Just like that.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - September 28, 2017

It's the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - September 27, 2017

All you need is someone who joins in on your weirdness.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - September 26, 2017

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
~ Steve Maraboli

Daily Zen Quote - September 25, 2017

True friends are never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.
~ Helen Keller

Daily Zen Quote - September 24, 2017

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - September 23, 2017

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or act with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - September 22, 2017

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - September 21, 2017

Happiness is a choice, not a result.
Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.
No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy.
Your happiness will not come to you.
It can only come from you.
~ Ralph Marston

Daily Zen Quote - September 20, 2017

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen Quote - September 19, 2017

If you're going to stay, stay forever.
If you're going to leave, then do it today.
If you're going to change, change for the better.
And if you're going to talk, make sure you mean what you say.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - September 18, 2017

The tongue is like a sharp knife,
kills without drawing blood.
~ Guatam Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - September 17, 2017

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
~ Emma Watson

Daily Zen Quote - September 16, 2017

Nothing worth having comes easy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Zen Quote - September 15, 2017

Mistakes are proof that you're trying.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - September 14, 2017

It's hard to beat a person who NEVER gives up.
~ Babe Ruth

Daily Zen Quote - September 13, 2017

Never give up on something you really want. It is difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - September 12, 2017

You're allowed to scream,
You're allowed to cry,
But do not give up.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - September 11, 2017

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius

Daily Zen Quote - September 10, 2017

Each day provides its own gifts.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Daily Zen Quote - September 9, 2017

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
~ Jim Rohn

Daily Zen Quote - September 8, 2017

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the results.
~ Oscar Wilde

Daily Zen Quote - September 7, 2017

Success if a journey, not a destination. the doing is often more important than the outcome.
~ Arthur Ashe

Daily Zen Quote - September 6, 2017

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
~ Winston Churchill

Daily Zen Quote - September 5, 2017

I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
~ Thomas Edison

Daily Zen Quote - September 4, 2017

No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.
~ Maeve Greyson

Daily Zen Quote - September 3, 2017

Man will be what he was born to be:
free and independent.
~ John F. Kennedy

Daily Zen Quote - September 2, 2017

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
~ Dr. Steve Maraboli

Daily Zen Quote - September 1, 2017

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ Lolly Daskal

Daily Zen Quote - August 31, 2017

Success is not the key of happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Herman Cain

Daily Zen Quote - August 30, 2017

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
~ John McEnroe

Daily Zen Quote - August 29, 2017

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
~ Mark Twain

Daily Zen Quote - August 28, 2017

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
~ Robert Kiyosaki

Daily Zen Quote - August 27, 2017

If you are depressed,
you are living in the past.
If you are anxious,
you are living in the future.
If you are at peace,
you are living in the present.
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - August 26, 2017

Empty your mind
Be formless
Shapeless
Like water
You put water into a cup
It becomes the cup
Put it in a teapot
It becomes the teapot
Water can flow
Or creep or drip or crash
Be water my friend
~ Bruce Lee

Daily Zen Quote - August 25, 2017

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 24, 2017

If you don't like me,
remember that its mind over
madder.
I don't mind and you don't madder.
~ Dr. Suess

Daily Zen Quote - August 23, 2017

Mind - A beautiful servant; a dangerous master.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 22, 2017

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.
~ Joel Osteen

Daily Zen Quote - August 21, 2017

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - August 20, 2017

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards.
When life is dragging you back with difficulties, just imagine that it's going to launch you into something great.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 19, 2017

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 18, 2017

You were given this life because you are strong enough to live through it.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 17, 2017

No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 16, 2017

Anyone can run away, it's super easy.
Facing problems and working through them,
that's what makes you strong.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 15, 2017

Life goes on...
Whether you choose to move on and
take a chance in the unknown.
Or stay behind, locked in the past,
thinking of what could've been.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 14, 2017

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers

Daily Zen Quote - August 13, 2017

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
~ Carol Burnett

Daily Zen Quote - August 12, 2017

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
~ Arthur Scopenhauer

Daily Zen Quote - August 11, 2017

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
~ Hugh Prather

Daily Zen Quote - August 10, 2017

Let your smile change the world but don't let the world change your smile.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 9, 2017

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.
~ C.S. Lewis

Daily Zen Quote - August 8, 2017

Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 7, 2017

Don't allow someone to make you feel like you're not good enough.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - August 6, 2017

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.
~ Henry Ford

Daily Zen Quote - August 5, 2017

Grace is not hard. Grace is not something you go after as much as it is something you allow. You just let it become. You may want it to come like thunder, lightning, or a big train so you know it is there --you know, with logs of noise and drama. It comes in naturally, however, like breathing, and you may not even know it is happening.
~ John-Roger

Daily Zen Quote - August 4, 2017

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
~ Michel de Montaigne

Daily Zen Quote - August 3, 2017

If you wish to be loved, love!
~ Seneca

Daily Zen Quote - August 2, 2017

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Use them! Use them!
~ Hafiz

Daily Zen Quote - August 1, 2017

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change...Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
~ Vernon Howard

Daily Zen Blog - July 31, 2017

The place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
~ Hafiz

Daily Zen Quote - July 30, 2017

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Daily Zen Quote - July 29, 2017

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other and the sooner we learn that the better for us all.
~ Joan Erikson

Daily Zen Quote - July 28, 2017

The greatest weapon against our stress is our ability to chose one thought over another.
~ William Jones

Daily Zen Quote - July 27, 2017

Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn't do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness.
~ Pema Chodron

Daily Zen Quote - July 26, 2017

Be happy, not because everything is good,
but because you see the good in everything.
~ Dale Partridge

Daily Zen Quote - July 25, 2017

Giving is a shortcut to happiness.
~ Arianna Huffington

Daily Zen Quote - July 24, 2017

There is no freedom without discipline, no vision without a frame.
~ David Allen

Daily Zen Quote - July 23, 2017

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the "creation bug" is just a wee voice telling you, "I'd like my crayons back, please."
~ Hugh MacLeod

Daily Zen Quote - July 22, 2017

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
~ William G.T. Shedd

Daily Zen Quote - July 21, 2017

You will become what you think about most...The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.
~ Shad Helmstetter

Daily Zen Quote - July 20, 2017

The one thing you can control is how you treat yourself. And that one thing can change everything.
~ Leeana Tankersley

Daily Zen Quote - July 19, 2017

Comparison is the Thief of Joy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Zen Quote - July 18, 2017

Never abandon your inner wisdom because you think that others know better.
~ Elli Stassinopoulos

Daily Zen Quote - July 17, 2017

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us there is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.
~ E.E. Cummings

Daily Zen Quote - July 16, 2017

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
~ Wayne Dyer

Daily Zen Quote - July 15, 2017

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Daily Zen Quote - July 14, 2017

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.
~ Derek Sivers

Daily Zen Quote - July 13, 2017

Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no long conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing?
~ IIchi Lee

Daily Zen Quote - July 12, 2017

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
~ Hafiz

Daily Zen Quote - July 11, 2017

If we utilize the ego correctly, we can have it function for us, being aware that as soon as we give our power over to it, it can destroy us. It will destroy us by making us believe we are the ego. It will turn us away from our greater awareness of who we truly are - the Soul.
~ John-Roger

Daily Zen Quote - July 10, 2017

The person who finds the spark in himself or herself can believe that everyone has that spark. It will take time for all of us to realize this. But imagine if each of us who has found our spark tries to connect to that spark in everyone we meet.
~ Maki Kawamura

Daily Zen Quote - July 9, 2017

There is no greater act than putting yourself before another. Not before another as in coming first, but rather as in opening yourself up before another, exposing your essence before another. Only in being this authentic can real kinship be known and real kindness released.
~ Mark Nepo

Daily Zen Quote - July 8, 2017

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen

Daily Zen Quote - July 7, 2017

Embark on the Journey of Love. It takes you from yourself to your Self.
~ Rumi

Daily Zen Quote - July 6, 2017

Beware of destination addiction, the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.
~ Author Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - July 5, 2017

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
~ Carl Jung

Daily Zen Quote - July 4, 2017

Denial is a verbal, expressive negation of a reality that makes action impossible.
~ Kathy McMahon

Daily Zen Quote - July 3, 2017

If you are troubled by external circumstances, it is not the circumstances that trouble you, but your own perception of them - and they are in your power to change at any time.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Daily Zen Quote - July 2, 2017

Rivers know this: there is no hurry.
We shall get there some day.
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Daily Zen Quote - July 1, 2017

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are you best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
~ The Dalai Lama

Daily Zen Quote - June 30, 2017

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.
~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Daily Zen Quote - June 29, 2017

You have to learn how to listen to your body, going with it and not against it, avoiding all effort or strain...You will be amazed to discover that, if you are kind to your body, it will respond in an incredible way.
~ Vanda Scaravelli

Daily Zen Quote - June 28, 2017

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
~ Rob Reiner

Daily Zen Quote - June 27, 2017

Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world.
~ Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - June 26, 2017

Find out where joy resides,
And give it a voice far beyond singing.
For to miss the joy is to miss all.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Daily Zen Quote - June 25, 2017

If it doesn't open, it's not your door.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - June 24, 2017

In life, you will realize there is a role for everyone you meet.
Some will test you,
some will use you,
some will love you,
and some will teach you.
But the ones who are truly important are the ones who bring out the best in you.
They are the rare and amazing people who remind you why it's worth it.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - June 23, 2017

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - June 22, 2017

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

Daily Zen Quote - June 21, 2017

"She's been through more Hell then you'll ever know. But, that's what gives her beauty an edge...
You can't touch a woman who can wear pain like the grandest of diamonds around her neck."
~ Alfa (c)

Daily Zen Quote - June 20, 2017

The spiritual way demands great strength, devotion and ardour for divine truth.
~ Zensho W. Kopp

Daily Zen Quote - June 19, 2017

No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 18, 2017

"Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough."
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 17, 2017

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 16, 2017

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 15, 2017

"The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment."
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 14, 2017

"As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all."
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 13, 2017

"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 12, 2017

"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 11, 2017

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.
- Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 10, 2017

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
- Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 9, 2017

Doubt everything. Find your own light.
- Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 8, 2017

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 7, 2017

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
- Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 6, 2017

You only lose what you cling to.
- Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 5, 2017

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 4, 2017

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 3, 2017

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 2, 2017

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
~Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - June 1, 2017

Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - May 31, 2017

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - May 30, 2017

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - May 29, 2017

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even we do not love it.
~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen Quote - May 28, 2017

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen Quote - May 27, 2017

If you understand, things are just as they are...If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
~ Anonymous

Daily Zen Quote - May 26, 2017

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

Daily Zen Quote - May 25, 2017

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen Quote - May 24, 2017

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen Quote - May 23, 2017

I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and Stars.
~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen Quote - May 22, 2017

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
~ Dogen Zenji

Dharma -
the teaching or religion of the Buddha.

Daily Zen Quote - May 21, 2017

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen Quote - May 20, 2017

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen Quote - May 19, 2017

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
~ Taisen Deshimaru

Daily Zen Quote - May 18, 2017

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-0, or even mineral water, or sake. Mediation is Drinking it!
~ Taisen Deshimaru

Daily Zen Quote - May 17, 2017

Think with your whole body.
~ Taisen Deshimaru

Daily Zen Quote - May 16, 2017

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
~ Anonymous

Daily Zen Quote - May 15, 2017

The one who is good at shooting does not hit the center of the target.
~ Anonymous

Daily Zen Quote - May 14, 2017

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother.
~ Abe Lincoln

Daily Zen Quote - May 13, 2017

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is a child, but also that you become a child.
~ Dogen Zenji

Daily Zen Quote - May 12, 2017

When someone you love becomes a memory,
The memory becomes a treasure.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - May 11, 2017

Give your flesh back to your mother and your bones back to you father and then show me your original face.
~ Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - May 10, 2017

Just as with her own life,
A mother shields from hurt her own son,
her only child.
Let all-embracing thoughts
For al beings be yours.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - May 9, 2017

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
~ Rajneesh

Daily Zen Quote - May 8, 2017

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - May 7, 2017

Every choice creates...
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - May 6, 2017

Train your mind to see the good in everything. Being positive is a choice. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - May 5, 2017

Higher consciousness, enlightenment, comes from the meaningful experiences and lessons passed with the understanding that there truly is ony one law, the Law of Love. When one leads a life expressing this belief, the mind and heart begin to open to new realities, and other dimensional truths become known.
~ Dr. Norma & Dr. Shirley

Daily Zen Quote - May 4, 2017

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it. It has gone, and yet it exists forever.
~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen Quote - May 3, 2017

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, or not starting.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - May 2, 2017

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen Quote - May 1, 2017

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time
The comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.
~ Zen Haiku

Daily Zen Quote - April 30, 2017

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ C.S. Lewis

Daily Zen Quote - April 29, 2017

I feel a new beginning coming towards me and I'm running to it with open arms.
~ Anonymous

Daily Zen Quote - April 28, 2017

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson

Daily Zen Quote - April 27, 2017

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
~ Dave Weinbaum

Daily Zen Quote - April 26, 2017

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings...
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - April 25, 2017

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner.
~ Max Lucado

Daily Zen Quote - April 24, 2017

One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go.
Whether it's guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal.
Change is never easy.
We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - April 23, 2017

Act without expectation.
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - April 22, 2017

Action and reaction are opposite and equal.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - April 21, 2017

Your vision will become clear only when you can look inside your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
Who looks inside, awakens.
~ Carl Jung

Daily Zen Quote - April 20, 2017

I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth...I must walk away. I owe it to myself...I owe it to my future.
~ Steve Maraboli

Daily Zen Quote - April 19, 2017

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.
~ Garrison Keillor

Daily Zen Quote - April 18, 2017

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Daily Zen Quote - April 17, 2017

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen Quote - April 16, 2017

LISTEN & SILENT
are spelled with the same letters.
Think about it.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - April 15, 2017

It is the silence between notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that cages the tiger.
~ Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - April 14, 2017

Small channels flow noisily;
the great flow silent.
Whatever's not full makes noise.
Whatever is full is quiet.
~ The Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - April 13, 2017

Silence is a source of great strength.
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - April 12, 2017

Silence the angry man with love.
Silence the ill-natured man with kindness.
Silence the miser with generosity.
Silence the liar with truth.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - April 11, 2017

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - April 10, 2017

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Daily Zen Quote - April 9, 2017

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
~ Sakyong Mipham

Daily Zen Quote - April 8, 2017

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
~ Booker T. Washington

Daily Zen Quote - April 7, 2017

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
~ Langston Hughes

Daily Zen Quote - April 6, 2017

Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - April 5, 2017

It's not our abilities that keep us from moving forward but our fears that hold us back...
~ Dianne Adams

Daily Zen Quote - April 4, 2017

The road to success, comes through hard-work, determinations and sacrifice.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - April 3, 2017

To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise, we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - April 2, 2017

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks inside, awakens.
~ Carl Jung

Daily Zen Quote - April 1, 2017

Choose Inner Peace
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace. Take action as circumstances require, but never surrender your inner peace. Stop. Breathe deeply. Close your eyes and breathe deeply again. Then, and only then, take action - from a peaceful heart.
~ Jonathon Lockwood Huie

Daily Zen Quote - March 31, 2017

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

Daily Zen Quote - March 30, 2017

Karma
When a bird is alive. It eats Ants.
When the bird is dead...Ants eat the bird..
Time & Circumstances can change at any time.
Don't devalue or hurt anyone in life.
You may be powerful today. But remember,
Time is more powerful than you!
One tree makes a million match sticks...
Only one match stick is needed to burn a million trees...
So be good and do good.
~Buddha Quote

Daily Zen Quote - March 29, 2017

You get there by realizing you are already there.
~ Eckhart Tolle

Daily Zen Quote - March 28, 2017

How people treat you is their karma;
How you react is yours.
~ Wayne Dyer

Daily Zen Quote - March 27, 2017

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

Daily Zen Quote - March 26, 2017

Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who are are and who you want to be.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - March 25, 2017

The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
~ Gaston Bachelard

Daily Zen Quote - March 24, 2017

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than our simplicity might suggest.
~ Thomas Moore

Daily Zen Quote - March 23, 2017

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 22, 2017

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 21, 2017

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
~ Chinese Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - March 20, 2017

Don't rush anything. When the time is right, it'll happen...
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - March 19, 2017

To understand nothing takes time.
~ Zen Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - March 18, 2017

You only lose what you cling to.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 17, 2017

Living without hope is like burying oneself.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 16, 2017

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~ Buddhist Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - March 15, 2017

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, Heaven or Hell.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 14, 2017

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

Daily Zen Quote - March 13, 2017

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 12, 2017

Once you realize that your true nature is pure awareness, the next 'step' is ABIDING as this undefinable, ungraspable, unknowable-yet-somehow-still-knowable AWARENESS that you are.
Seeking is doing.
Abiding is being.
~ Michael Jeffreys

Daily Zen Quote - March 11, 2017

Like a beautiful flower full of color but without fragrance, even so, fruitless are the fair words of one who does not practice them.
~ Zen Quote

Daily Zen Quote - March 10, 2017

You work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 9, 2017

The tongue is like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood.
~ Gautam Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 8, 2017

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act on upon them?
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 7, 2017

No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 6, 2017

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 5, 2017

A jug fills drop by drop.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 4, 2017

It is you who must make the effort.
Masters only point the way.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 3, 2017

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - March 2, 2017

When you are in love you can't fall asleep
because reality is better than your dreams.
~ Dr. Seuss

Daily Zen Quote - March 1, 2017

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
~ Carl Sagan

Daily Zen Quote - February 28, 2017

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
~ Edgar Allan Poe

Daily Zen Quote - February 27, 2017

Who dreams, merge themselves with the air,
Who dreams for too long, will look like his shadow.
Dreams are sometimes too good to be true,
If you want your dreams become reality,
then it's time to wake up.
~ Buddhist Quote

Daily Zen Quote - February 26, 2017

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
~ The Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 25, 2017

Enlightenment must come little by little, otherwise if would overwhelm.
~ Idries Shah

Daily Zen Quote - February 24, 2017

The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demand for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings...
~ Gautama Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 23, 2017

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
~ Og Mandino

Daily Zen Quote - February 22, 2017

Have patience.
Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear.
Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Daily Zen Quote - February 21, 2017

Simplicity, Patience. Compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Daily Zen Quote - February 20, 2017

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
~ Buddhist Quote

Daily Zen Quote - February 19, 2017

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen Quote - February 18, 2017

To understand is to love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen Quote - February 17, 2017

Clouds gone, the mountain appears.
~ Zen Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - February 16, 2017

"How do you spell love?" Piglet asked Pooh.
Pooh responded, "You don't spell it, you feel it."
~ Winnie the Pooh

Daily Zen Quote - February 15, 2017

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 14, 2017

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
~ Nicole Krauss from The History of Love

Daily Zen Quote - February 13, 2017

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
~ Zen Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - February 12, 2017

Nothing if forever...except change.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 11, 2017

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

Daily Zen Quote - February 10, 2017

The thought manifests as the word;
the word manifests as the deed;
the deed develops into habit;
and habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.
~ Gautama Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 9, 2017

The tongue is like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood.
~ Guatama Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 8, 2017

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - February 7, 2017

All know the way, but few actually walk it.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 6, 2017

Buddha was asked what have you gained from meditation? He replied, "Nothing however Buddha said, let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old Age and Death."
~ Anonymous

Daily Zen Quote - February 5, 2017

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 4, 2017

Knowing that the other person is angry,
One who remains mindful and calm acts his own best interest and for the other's interest, too.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 3, 2017

The trouble is, you think you have time.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 2, 2017

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - February 1, 2017

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - January 31, 2017

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 30, 2017

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but through persistence.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 29, 2017

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 28, 2017

Your best teacher is your last mistake.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - January 27, 2017

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind.
The goal is to find it.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 26, 2017

One is meant to forgive and be compassionate.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 25, 2017

Living without hope is like burying oneself.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 24, 2017

At the end of the way is freedom.
Til then, patience.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 23, 2017

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of free.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 22, 2017

I had a discussion with a great master in Japan...and we were talking about the various people who are working to translate the Zen books into English, and he said, "That's a waste of time. If you reall understand Zen...you can use any book. you could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because...the sound of the rain needs no translation."
~ Alan Watts

Daily Zen Quote - January 21, 2017

The thought manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into a habit; and habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.
~ Gautama Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 20, 2017

Balance.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
~ Euripides

Daily Zen Quote - January 19, 2017

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 18, 2017

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 17, 2017

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 16, 2017

To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 15, 2017

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become who I will be.
~ Albert Einstein

Daily Zen Quote - January 14, 2017

Life comes a full circle when you see yourself, a new life that you made.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - January 13, 2017

By leaving your comfort zone behind and taking a leap of faith into something new, you find out who you are truly capable of becoming.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - January 12, 2017

What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
~ Anne Quindlen

Daily Zen Quote - January 11, 2017

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~ Frederick Keonig

Daily Zen Quote - January 10, 2017

I like the person I'm becoming...The things I went through last year honestly made me a better person this year.
~ Unknown

Daily Zen Quote - January 9, 2017

Often, it's not about becoming a new person but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.
~ Heath L. Buckmaster

Daily Zen Quote - January 8, 2017

In the end these are things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 7, 2017

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 6, 2017

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act on upon them?
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 5, 2017

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
~ Peter Drucker

Daily Zen Quote - January 4, 2017

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
~ Dalai Lama

Daily Zen Quote - January 3, 2017

The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you.
~ Zen Proverb

Daily Zen Quote - January 2, 2017

Each morning, we are born again.
What we do today is what matters most.
~ Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - January 1, 2017

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your reactions.
~ Unknown