1,214 Quotes About Zen

We cannot dim another person’s light without first extinguishing our own.

Neither to heaven nor to hell, my journey is towards my home.

You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find your path or the path is already there and you aren't just able to see it.

Realization of timeless is not an event of time.

The only path wide for us all is love.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

And I have known meditators filled with doubt and self-condemnation when the practice has been stormy. Practicing with our best effort during periods of crisis and personal struggle may not bring about spiritual highs. It may, however, bring something more important: a strengthening of the inner qualities that sustain a spiritual life for the long term: mindfulness, persistence, courage, compassion, humility, renunciation, discipline, concentration, faith*, acceptance, and kindness.

The Zen master told me "Enlightenment requires a still awareness." So I learned how to brew moonshine.

Mastery of impulse is all about self-discipline and choice. The mind is a powerful tool with which we have the ability to be in control of ourselves.