Inhale the future. Exhale the past.
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear. @ -Prasad Mahes
Life begins where fear ends. @ -Osho
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. @ -Ram Dass
Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. @ -Buddha
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. @ -Pema Chödrön
I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. @ -Sheng-yen
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. @ -Joyce Meyer
You are exactly where you need to be.
Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention. @ -Robert Greene
One of the best lessons you can learn is to master how to remain calm. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Roads were made for journeys not destinations. @ -Confucius
Sleep is the best meditation. @ -Dalai Lama
Relax. Nothing is under control. @ -Adi Da
What we think, we become. @ -Buddha
Wise men don't judge - they seek to understand. @ -Wei Wu Wei
Become comfortable with not knowing. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything. @ -Jack Kerouac
Today I refuse to stress myself out over things I can't control or change.
If it comes; let it. If it goes; let it.
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. @ -Rumi
Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain. @ -Sathya Sai Baba
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle. @ -Albert Einstein
The less you try to impress, the more peaceful you can be. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. @ -Bodhidharma
Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. @ -Confucius
Through sleep, you disconnect from the world so that you can reconnect with your soul. @ -Jennifer Williamson
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you. @ -Lao Tzu
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. @ -Lao Tzu
Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. @ -Osho
Stop trying to control the results. Let whatever comes, come.
Don't forget to rest and reset.
Act without expectation. @ -Lao Tzu
All things are difficult before they are easy. @ -Thomas Fuller
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life. @ -Confucius
Wherever you are, be totally there. @ -Eckhart Tolle
If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. @ -Confucius
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. @ -Alan Watts
Let go, or be dragged. @ -Zen Proverb
Relax. Nothing's missing.
No ego, no pain. @ -Chien ju
There is no path to peace; peace is the path. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is a calm mind. @ -Shane Parrish
Never complain. Never explain. @ -Katharine Hepburn
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. @ -Lin Yutang
Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never. @ -Sathya Sai Baba
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. @ -Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. @ -Lao Tzu
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. @ -Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. @ -Confucius
The first and the best victory is to conquer self. @ -Plato
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind. @ -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Even monkeys fall from trees. @ -Japanese Proverb
When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float. @ -Zen Proverb
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? @ -Lao Tzu
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. @ -Rumi
Wherever you are, be there totally. @ -Eckhart Tolle
He who knows he has enough is rich. @ -Lao Tzu
Be present above all else. @ -Naval Ravikant
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. @ -Natalie Goldberg
Confine yourself to the present. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Enough is abundance to the wise. @ -Euripides
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. @ -Robert M. Pirsig
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. @ -Nikola Tesla
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. @ -Alan Watts
True calmness comes from within. @ -Asad Meah
The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things. @ -Thich Thien An
Don't try to steer the river. @ -Deepak Chopra
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. @ -Bruce Lee
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. @ -Dalai Lama
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
One loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them. @ -Masanobu Fukuoka
He who is contented is rich. @ -Lao Tzu
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. @ -Dogen
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. @ -Meister Eckhart
Your mind wants control. Life wants change. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Best be still; best be empty. In stillness and emptiness we find where to abide. Talking and moving we lose the place. @ -Lao Tzu
Zen is not some special state, it is our normal condition, silent, peaceful, awake, without agitation. @ -Taisen Deshimaru
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. @ -Swami Vivekananda
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. @ -Dogen
The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
To live - is that not enough? @ -D.T. Suzuki
All know the way, but few actually walk it. @ -Bodhidharma
Water which is too pure has no fish. @ -Ts'ai Ken T'an
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss. @ -Bodhidharma
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. @ -Eric Hoffer
Not creating delusions is enlightenment. @ -Bodhidharma
Who you are is always right. @ -Ming-Dao Deng
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong. @ -Frederick Lenz
In the highest level a man has the look of knowing nothing. @ -Yamamoto Tsunetomo
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves. @ -Dogen
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way. @ -Dogen
This will never come again. @ -Steve Hagen
I live by letting things happen. @ -Dogen
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. @ -Shunryu
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. @ -Buddha
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. @ -Confucius
Think with your whole body. @ -Taisen Deshimaru
Words diminish meanings; these words included.
I don't mind what happens. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Zen practice is to open up our small mind. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. @ -Robert M. Pirsig
Zen is not an art, it's not a religion. It's a realisation. @ -Gene Clark
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. @ -D.T. Suzuki
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions. @ -Jianzhi Sengcan
The more you know, the less you need. @ -Yvon Chouinard
Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha. @ -James Patterson
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. @ -Ram Dass
Singlemindedness is all-powerful. @ -Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. @ -Dogen
All things are ready, if our mind be so. @ -William Shakespeare
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home. @ -Zhuangzi
There are no problems without consciousness. @ -Carl Gustav Jung
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
Zen has no business with ideas. @ -D.T. Suzuki
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish. @ -Huang Po
A zen master's life is one continuous mistake. @ -Dogen
Still your waters. @ -Josh Waitzkin
Life is a second-by-second miracle. @ -Joko Beck
Unwind, relax, and deepen into the present moment. @ -Eckhart Tolle
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. @ -Koun Yamada
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points. @ -D.T. Suzuki
Zen is an effort to become alert and awake. @ -Osho
When the disciple is ready, the master appears. @ -Osho
The essence of the Way is detachment. @ -Bodhidharma
Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it. @ -Kamal Ravikant
Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it. @ -Allen Klein
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? @ -Zhuangzi
Movement is evil. Being still is good. @ -Ben Caesar
Mind is like a mad monkey. @ -Sathya Sai Baba
