Daily Inspiration

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 31 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

He only acquires (virtue) who endures routine and sweat and postponement of fancy to the achievement of a worthy end.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 30 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 12 Dec 2014

The true Way is sublime.

It can't be expressed in language.

Of what use are scriptures?

But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, 

even if he can't read a word.

- Bodhidharma

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 13/14 Dec 2014

We live but a fraction of our lives.

- Henry David Thoreau

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 29 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

Without recognizing the ordinances of Heaven, it is impossible to be a superior man.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 9 Dec 2014

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

- Henry David Thoreau

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 10 Dec 2014

The most violent element

in society is ignorance.

- Emma Goldman

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 11 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 6/7 Dec 2014

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

- Chuang Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 8 Dec 2014

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 27/28 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

Ask yourself constantly,

"What is the right thing to do?"

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 4 Dec 2014

We sink to rise.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 5 Dec 2014

Better a diamond with a flaw

than a pebble without.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 26 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 2 Dec 2014

Real knowledge is to know

the extent of one's ignorance.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 3 Dec 2014

He who loves the world as his body

may be entrusted with the empire.

- Lao Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 25 Dec 2014 

Daily Inspiration

The sage does not accumulate for himself.

The more he uses for others, the more he has himself.

The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own.

- Lao Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 29/30 Nov 2014

Worse than idle is compassion

If it ends in tears and sighs.

- William Wordsworth

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 1 Dec 2014

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

- Dalai Lama

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 24 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

Heaven is like an egg,

and the earth is like the 

yolk of the egg.

- Chang Heng

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 27 Nov 2014

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 28 Nov 2014

He who possesses virtue in abundance 

May be compared to an infant.

- Lao Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 23 Dec 2014

Daily Inspiration

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. 

- Henry David Thoreau

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 25 Nov 2014

To see the danger clearly and yet remain unperturbed in the face of it, trusting to God's goodness, is true wisdom.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 26 Nov 2014

Be gentle. Not by harming life does one become noble. One is termed noble for being gentle to all living things.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 22 Dec 2014