To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.
The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm.
The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.
Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready....
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth...
When angry, count to Zen.
Gracious is the giver who can host and also be a stranger at the door.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception.
Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you wo...
Po: Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.Oogway: Quit, don't quit? Noodles, don't noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is hist...
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.
Keep Calm and Find Your Zen-ity
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any...
Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them god for us or bad for us. The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it b...
It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer an...