Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old zen quotes, zen sayings, and zen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The world is its own magic.Shunryu Suzuki
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.Jack Kornfield
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When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
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When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.Eckhart Tolle
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.Buddha
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.Ray Bradbury
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Think with your whole body.Taisen Deshimaru
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.Dogen Zenji
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The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.Eckhart Tolle
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.Buddha
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!Taisen Deshimaru
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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.Wu-Men
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Wherever you are, be there totally.Eckhart Tolle
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Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Zhuang Zhou
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People living deeply have no fear of death.Anais Nin
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.Robert M. Pirsig
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.Seneca
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.Byron Katie
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.Taisen Deshimaru
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The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.Koun Yamada
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Zen is an effort to become alert and awake.Osho
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao Tzu
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We are here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Forget the years, forget distinction. Leap into the boundless and make it your home.Zhuangzi
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To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.Alan Watts
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Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding...that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy and it appears as you, and everything is it.Alan Watts
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The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to 'feel it in your bones.'Alan Watts
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In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.Shunryu Suzuki
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Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad, or advantageous, but what is.Alan Watts