Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 31 May 2011):

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see the Positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Other Inspirational Quotes:

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Today's Zen (Monday 30 May 2011):

"Beware of the anger
Of the mind.
Master your thoughts.
Let them serve truth."

- The Dhammapada

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Other Inspirational Quotes:

"What will you do with your one wild & precious life?"
- Mary Oliver

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Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 28/29 May 2011):

"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

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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Today's Zen (Friday 27 May 2011):

"Sorrow is tranquility
remembered in emotion."

- Dorothy Parker

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Friday 13 May 2011:

"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 what ever way they like."

- Lao-tzu

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Today's Zen (Thursday 26 May 2011):

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which please -- you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Thursday 12 May 2011:

"Cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability. If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, you can be called a complete person."

- Hongzhi Zhengjue

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Today's Zen (Wednesday 25 May 2011):

"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose."

- Eknath Easwaran

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Wednesday 11 May 2011:

"Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning...and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom."

- Bergen Evans

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Today's Zen Tuesday 24 May 2011):

"To return to the root 
Is to find the meaning, 
But to pursue appearances
Is to miss the source."

- Seng-Ts'an

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Tuesday 10 May 2011:

"In the ultimate stillness
Light penetrates the whole realm;In the still illumination,
There pervades pure emptiness.
When I look back on the phenomenal world,
Everything is just like a dream."

- Han-shan Te-Ch'ing

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Today's Zen (Monday 23 May 2011):

"With gentleness,
Overcome anger.
With generosity,
Overcome meanness. 
With truth,
Overcome delusion."

- The Dhammapada

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Monday 9 May 2011:

"Whenever consciene speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity."

- Henri F. Amiel

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Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 21/22 May 2011):

"The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being."

- D.H. Lawrence

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Sat/Sun 7/8 May 2011:

"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the souls of men."

- Black Elk

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Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 21/22 May 2011):

"The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being."

- D.H. Lawrence

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Friday 6 May 2011:

"Here is it -- right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it."

- Huang Po

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Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Friday 20 May 2011):

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."

- Confucius

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Thursday 5 May 2011:

"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

- Hans Margolius

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Today's Zen (Thursday 19 May 2011):

"The soul establishes itself.
But how far can it swim out through the eyes
And still return safely to its nest?"

- John Ashbery

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Wednesday 18 May 2011:

"The morning glory which blooms for an hour
Differes not at heart from the giant pine,
Which lives for a thousand years."

- Alan Watts

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 17 May 2011):

"...the sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard... travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous."

- Abraham Maslow

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Monday 7 March 2011:

"In this world
Hate never dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhautible.
You too shall pass away.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?"

- Buddha

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Today's Zen (Monday 16 May 2011):

"The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order."

- Henry Miller

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Sat/Sun 5/6 March 2011:

"Things of the past are already gone
And thgings to be,
Distant beyond imagining."

- Ch'ing Kung

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Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 14/15 May 2011):

"With an eye made quiet by the power 
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things."

- William Wordsworth

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Friday 4 March 2011:

"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine."

- Shunryu Suzuki

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Today's Zen (Wednesday 4 May 2011):

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."

- John Muir

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Thursday 3 March 2011:

"The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year."

- Thomas Dreier

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Today's Zen (Tuesday 3 May 2011):

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment."

- Lao-Tzu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Wednesday 2 March 2011:

"It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands."

- Gandhi