Browse 1609 quotes about Zen.
“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm.”
“The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“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.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole day ahead of us, we’re almost to the mountains, it’s a good day to be alive. It’s this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Taoism is simply the complete acceptance of yourself as you are right in this moment. It's about rolling with the changes, whether they are perceived as good or bad. Tao reminds us to live life through good actions (important for past karma and karma you are presently creating); through practicing things that engage our mind, body, and spirit.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“Sometimes you’re going to
shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces.
Either way, it’s okay.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“How bittersweet is it to realize that we are the creators of our realities and that we have allowed others to do the creating for us for so many years? So much time wasted…so much guilt, regret and bitterness. It can be easier to numb that pain than face it. Yet once we face our pain and take responsibility, we gain the freedom to move forward and unleash our Divine Potential. We also gain the freedom to move forward and respond to life with Divinity; thus, we alter the very fabric of the collective realities experienced on our planet.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“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.”
“You have the power to change the happiness level in someone’s life and in the process you change your mind-set and the level of your own happiness. Practicing kindness and compassion will change your life, your environment, your outlook on your future, and how you view what has happened in your past.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“Pity moment, blah! Let’s turn it around! We do not even need to go into the story of it. We acknowledge this moment and release it. We love and accept and forgive ourselves. And we acknowledge that this is a tiny stitch, a brief pinprick in the needlepoints we are creating of our lives. And we also acknowledge that this lifetime of ours is but a tiny little stitch in the ever-expanding, infinite needlepoint of the Universe. Self-pity is not a reason good enough for us to be out of alignment with peace.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching 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.”
“Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“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.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so ad infinitum. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not fear,
as the preferred force in your life.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“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”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that’s what makes it hard to see.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.”
“It is very possible to acknowledge another person’s concerns without entering into their vibration.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“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.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.”
“A single thought can shift your entire world.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“[W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self – in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay;”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“It’s okay to experience the flow of all emotions; however, if we get caught up in feeling pity for others and take on the responsibility of being their ‘savior’, we often take away their power to ‘save’ themselves. If I see someone as ‘messed up’ then I am projecting my ‘messed up’ vibration onto them, so I am unable to hold space. Yet, if I already view them as whole, well, and beautiful – then I am able to be a vibrational key (vessel of Spirit) that uplifts their energy so that it may come into alignment with being whole, well, and beautiful. It’s not that I do any of the healing; I’m simply a mirror reflecting acceptance and loving them for exactly who they are, right where they are. That is all that is ever truly asked of us, to accept and to love.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“We are evolving beyond the need for instinctual survival. No longer do we need to rely on our instincts of fight or flight, because our stresses today are not life-threatening. We have the recourse to remain at peace and in tune with the Universe. No longer do we need to be blinded by our impulsive human behaviors and reactions. We are coming to a time of transcendence in which we can choose to unplug ourselves from our predictable reactions and create a new future. Right now, our futures are easily calculable by those who understand the formula for humanity. Yet, what is missing from the formula is humanity’s ability to awaken and begin to truly exercise free will.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“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.”
“I’m not here to disagree with people or try to change anyone’s mind. I’m just here to accept and love others right where they are – no matter their belief systems or backgrounds.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“When we take our clothes in our hands and fold them neatly, we are, I believe, transmitting energy, which has a positive effect on our clothes. Folding properly pulls the cloth taut and erases wrinkles, and makes the material stronger and more vibrant. Clothes that have been neatly folded have a resilience and sheen that can be discerned immediately, clearly distinguishing them from those that have been haphazardly stuffed in a drawer. The act of folding is far more than making clothes compact for storage. It is an act of caring, an expression of love and appreciation for the way these clothes support your lifestyle. Therefore, when we fold, we should put our heart into it, thanking our clothes for protecting our bodies.”
Source: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
“The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Results for "What are the maintenance requirements of the human being? Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness and food, clothing, shelter and medical care. Keeping us confused and divided against one another about these rights, the multinational power elite teaches us in America that only life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are rights. In socialist nations they promote the view that only food, clothing, shelter and medical care are rights.”
“There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“[F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate those of others – and … all creatures of a dynamic universe.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Life is an all-encompassing art gallery. From the seasons ushering in change to the way a body moves during dance; from the way one smile paints another to the waddle of a street rat – every facet of life is art in motion. Every time a bird takes flight from a branch the scene changes; each time the winds shift brings new perspective.”
“There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life