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