“Nothing happens next, this is it.” – Grahan Wilson
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”– Thích Nhat Hanh
“To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.” ― Sengcan
“This will never come again” ― Steve Hagen
“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”– Zen Proverb
“The object of your desire is not an object.” ― Jack Gardner
“There is no mistake in nature.”– Byron Katie
“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”– Ram Dass
“Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.”– Seng-ts’an
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”– Alan Watts
“I’ve lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”– Alan Watts
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.”– Dogen
“The greatest effort is not concerned with results.”– Atisha
“When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.” ― Donna Quesada
“It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.”– Buddhism Now
“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.” ― Charlotte Joko Beck
“Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.” ― Charlotte Joko Beck
“Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness. In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed. Spring flowers, winter snows. There’s no being or non-being, nor denial itself.” ― Saisho Hiroshi
“He knows not where he’s going, For the ocean will decide, It’s not the destination, It’s the glory of the ride” ― Edward Monkton
“Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.”– Zen Proverb
“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”― Lao Tzu
“Any experience of reality is indescribable!– R. D. Laing
“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.”– Chuang Tzu
“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Think with your whole body.”- Taisen Deshimaru
“Zen has no business with ideas.”– D.T. Suzuki
“The object of your desire is not an object.” ― Jack Gardner
“In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.”- Dogen Zenji
“If you understand, things are just as they are… If you do not understand, things are just as they are…”- Anonymous
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”― Lao Tzu
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”- Buddha
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”- Buddha
“No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.”– Tilopa
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.”– Zen Proverb
“To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.”– Zen Proverb
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu
“What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.”– Alan Keightley
“In today’s rush, we all think too much — seek too much — want too much — and forget about the joy of just being.” - Eckhart Tolle
“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different than they are.” – Allan Lokos
“Clearly what is meant to be is. The peace is always in that.” – Gangaji
Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream. —Sheng-yen
“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.” ― Bruce Lee
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”– Alan Watts
“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.” ― Huang Po
“As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.”– Buddha
“It isn’t that we’re alone or not alone whose voice do you want mine? Yours?” ― Ikkyu
“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
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”– Alan Watts
“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” ― Zhuangzi
“Each morning we are born again, what we do today matters most.” – Buddha
“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?” ― D.T. Suzuki
“Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life — after that you cannot be deceived.”– Zen Proverb
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi
“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”– Eckhart Tolle
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ― Lao Tzu
“To understand everything is to forgive everything”– Gautama Siddhartha
“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” ― Dōgen
“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” — Robert M. Pirsig
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. – Zen Saying
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What was never lost can never be found. – Zen Saying
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”– Eckhart Tolle
“To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.”– Zen Proverb
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”– Anais Nin
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality. – Sri Chinmoy
“Silence is a source of Great Strength.” ― Lao Tzu
“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”– Eckhart Tolle
“The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.” – Bruce Lee
People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anais Nin
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. – Jack Kornfield
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. – Rumi
The obstacle is the path. — Zen Saying
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ― Masanobu Fukuoka
“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”– Alan Watts
“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”– Eckhart Tolle
“I’m here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.”– Pema Chödrön
“Who we are now is all that really matters.” ― Amy Joy
“To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.” ― Lao Tzu
“Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.”– Maezumi Roshi
“Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.”– Ramesh Balsekar
“When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.”– Zen Proverb
“My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.”– Byron Katie
“Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.”– Huang Po
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”– Shunryu Suzuki
“The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.”– D.T. Suzuki
“The more you know, the less you need.” ― Yvon Chouinard
“Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves”– Nagarjuna
“When the mind is perfectly clear, what is…is what we want.”– Byron Katie
“Heaven and earth and I are of the same root. The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.”– Seng-chao
“I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.”– Byron Katie
“The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits. Distinguish these without falling into names and classifications.”– Hongzhi
“To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.”– Dogen
“Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.”– Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
“My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.”– Osho
“At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.”– Chuang Tzu
“To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.”– Suzuki Roshi
“The way out of life & death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life & death.”– Bukko
“When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.” ― Sengcan
“Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.” ― Alan W. Watts
“A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.”– Rinzai Zen proverb
“Let go or be dragged.” – Zen Proverb
“Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.” ― Lao Tzu
“And that is the whole secret of Zen: to become unconnected with time.” – Osho
