Top Zen Quotes

Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.

Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come.

The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as if t...

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Mastering my mind one thought at a time.

Have you ever thought; whilst looking all this time for the magic in the world, it's been inside you all along? No matter how far you travel, how wide you spread your wings and learn to fly if you hav...

The wind plays its own music.

Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doi...

Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning -- already gone --thus should one regard one's self.

I am not a victim of circumstance, situation, nor any external condition of life. I am an active participant in the creation of my reality, meaning, I am actively participating in the creation of what...

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, h...

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.