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