Quotes about Zen

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass — Jalaluddin Rumi
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan W. Watts
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, — Ray Bradbury
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar — Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. — Bob Dylan
Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up wi — Susan Gordon Lydon, The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice
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, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but — Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from — Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a s — Forrest Curran
One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more ope — Forrest Curran
As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest — Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble — Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as well as the moments — Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Do not do that again," he said stiffly."Don't kiss me back then," I retorted.He stared at me for what seemed like foreve — Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. — Alan W. Watts
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"
Too lazy to be ambitious,I let the world take care of itself.Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;a bundle of twigs by the — Ryōkan
Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something — Shunryu Suzuki