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    Zen Moments

    From The Little Zen Companion.

    God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
    - Paul Valery

    With the evening breeze the water laps against the heron's legs.
    - Buson

    It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
    - Ursula K. Le Guin.

    If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
    - Nietzsche.

    He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
    - Tao Te Ching.

    If you could understand a single grain of wheat, you would die of wonder.
    - Martin Luther

    To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.
    - Yaqui Mystic

    Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
    - Zen saying.


    Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God:
    But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
    - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Water which is too pure has no fish.
    - Ts'ai Ken T'An.

    To set up what you like against what you dislike -- this is the disease of the mind.
    - Seng-T'San.

    It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
    - Thoreau.

    What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
    - Ludwig Wittgenstein.

    This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...
    - Joseph Conrad.

    Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
    - Goethe.

    Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
    - Socrates.

    Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the old; seek what they sought.
    - Basho.

    Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
    - Tom Stoppard.

    Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
    - Friedrich von Schiller.

    Whoever knows himself knows God.
    - Muhammad.

    Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
    - Kahlil Gibran.

    The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
    - Henry Miller.

    Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
    - Dogen.

    The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
    - Albert Einstein








    If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
    - St. John of the Cross.

    Lovely snowflakes, they fall nowhere else!
    - Zen Saying.

    It is good to have an end to journey toward;
    but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
    - Ursula K. Le Guin.

    Everything the same; everything distinct.
    - Zen Proverb

    When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough.
    When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.
    - Fen-Yang.

    Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify.
    - Thoreau.

    You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
    - G.K. Chesterton.

    Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
    - John Lennon.

    Men argue, nature acts.
    - Voltaire.



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