Daily Zen

Today's Zen (3 December 2011):

"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering."
- Francis Fenelon

Zen from Tuesday 23 August 2011:

"From the pine tree learn of the pine tree, and from the bamboo learn of the bamboo."
- Basho

Zen from Tuesday 8 November 2011:

"When you do a thing, do it with the whole self. One thing at a time. Now I sit here and I eat. For me nothing exists in the world except this food, this table. I eat with the whole attention. So you must do - in everything."
- George J. Gurdjieff