Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Thursday 16 June 2011):

"Happiness is a quality of mind. It is something we possess within.... If we do not have it within, nothing outside can give it to us."

- Paramananda

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 15 June 2011:

"Especially in Zen is this true: abstract ideas that do not reflect themselves forcibly and efficiently in practical living are regarded as of no value. Conviction must be gained through experience and not through abstraction."
- D.T. Suzuki

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 14 June 2011):

"Well-being means to be fully born, to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and sadness or, to put it differently, to awake from the half-slumber the average man lives in and to be fully awake."
- Erich Fromm

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:

"Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere."
- Oprah Winfrey

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Monday 13 June 2011):

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama

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:

"Not all those who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 11/12 June 2011):

"The mind is never right but when it is at peace with itself."
- Seneca

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:

"Wisdom begins with wonder."
- Socrates

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Friday 10 June 2011):

"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."
- William Saroyan

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:

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
- Omar Khayyan

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Thursday 9 June 2011):

"I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives: each day, each hour, an entire life."
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

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:

"Embrace simplicity."
- Lao Tzu

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Wednesday 8 June 2011):

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
- 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)

Other Inspirational Quotes:

"True insight comes from within."
- Socrates

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 7 June 2011):

"Awareness is not something to be acquired at the end of a process. We already have all we need."

- Francis Lucille

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 3 June 2011:

"You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul."
- Sam Keen

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Monday 6 June 2011):

"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life."

- Buddha

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 2 June 2011:

"...I have nothing to report, my friends. If you want to find meaning, stop chasing after so many things."
- Ryokan

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 4/5 June 2011):

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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 1 June 2011:

"From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth."

- Thich Nhat Hanh