1,214 Quotes About Zen

Water your plants and your job is done for today.

Only the steps of a one-step long journey can be taken all at the same time.

Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'A single seed planted, eventually becomes a garden in time – when things get tough, tend to the garden in your mind.

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality.

Energy does not judge, it merely creates.

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

He said he’d heard the sound of one hand clapping. He said, once his mind took in the wondrous no-sound of holy oneness, the empty echo of eternal bliss, he was never the same. He could hear it still, he said, resounding in the ether and tickling the back of his brain.Something not normal was going on with his brain. No argument there.

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.