Zen Quotes
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
don't wait for the man standing in the snowto cut off his arm help him now
it isn't that we're alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?
that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind
Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night, I feel a longing forMy father before he was born.
The future is a dark cave. So focus on the now, where it steps. Make of faith the spark that illuminates and of positivity the sound that echoes.
Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don't deserve it.
You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to lose your sense of self.
The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.
Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love
When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, you change the way you deal with everything in life.
Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.
You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.
The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.
When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love.
When I think of Tao, I think of the artist Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. I can hear him say, “It’s your tree, you can make it look any way you want to.
Love has many names including compassion, caring, concern, friendship, kindness, goodwill, altruism and benevolence.
Love is powerful. If you want more of it in your life be grateful for what you have and love whenever you can. Positive mind-state essential.
The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.
Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.
When we allow ourselves to be authentically free, it raises our vibration.
Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.
What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.
Find something beautiful to focus on daily and allow Inspiration to have its way with you.
Truth falls from the heavens like rain, gently carving many channels in the earth. Your truth may be different from my own, yet both are still true.
Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.
You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.
Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.
Be aware of the type of humor you use in your daily life. Just because people are laughing doesn’t mean it is creating positive vibes.
The greater the time of grief or stress the greater reason we have to be in alignment with peace.
There is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Peace, and there is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Love.
I invite each of you to let go of your fears for just one day and say YES to life… say YES to love… say YES to You! You can always go back to saying ‘no’ another day.
Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.
Even the most aware of us do not realize the infinite power we possess or the magnitude of the ability we have to create, transmute, and transcend.
It is very possible to acknowledge another person’s concerns without entering into their vibration.
