To learn to see, to learn to hear, you must do this—go into the wilderness alone.
Read moreD.T. Suzuki
Logically considered, Zen may be full of contradictions and repetitions, But as it stands above all things, it goes serenely on its own way.
Read moreByron Katie
Loneliness is a hunger for my true nature. I stopped looking for people to fill this.
Read moreH.G. Wells
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
Read moreAdyashanti
If there is a path at all, it is emptying yourself of everything that you are not.
Read moreAndré Gide
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Read moreLao-tzu
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures
Read moreErich Fromm
Well-being means to be fully born, to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and for sadness or, to put it still differently, to awake from the half-slumber the average man lives in, and to be fully awake.
Read moreChögyam Trungpa
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
Read moreWilliam Saroyan
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough
Read moreShabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol
In the unthinkable, inscrutable, ordinary nature of reality there is not difference between freedom and bondage. No matter what arises, when you perceive your original nature, the joy arises automatically—and what joy!
Read moreBasho
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Read moreAnne Sexton
I am not what I expected.
Read moreShunryu Suzuki
Zen is the path of no turning back.
Read morePeter Matthiessen
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.
Read moreAjahn Chah
You will succeed in truly spreading the Buddha's Dhamma here only if you are not afraid to challenge the desires and opinions of your students. If you do this, you will succeed; if you do not, if you change the teachings and the practice to fit the existing habits and opinions of people out of a misguided sense of wanting to please them, you will have failed in your duty to serve in the best way possible.
Read moreNisargadatta Maharaj
You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.
Read moreFranz Kafka
You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Hermann Hesse
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.
Read moreD.T. Suzuki
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
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