Top Zen Quotes

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

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

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

Zen is the period of time during which a person has true clarity of vision.

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

If the eye never sleeps,all dreams will naturally cease.If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are,of single essence.To understand the mystery of this One essence is...

The title of this Chautauqua is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, not Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing, and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very littl...

It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.

Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

When no discriminating thoughts arise,the old mind ceases to exist.When thought objects vanish,the thinking-subject vanishes,as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.Things are objects because of the...

Life is full of highs and lows. We need them both to grow to our fullest potential. Just hang on tight & enjoy the ride.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.

We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation.

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

What he’s looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn’t want that because it is all around him. Every step’s an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to...

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.

This will never come again