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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Zest.
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
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If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
Be still and know who you are.
- Kirtana
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.
- Osho
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Dwell in stillness.
Observe without reacting and without judging.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger,
regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue.
Let go of the need for approval.
- Lama Surya Das
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
Breathe and let be.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves,
we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
- Deepak Chopra
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness.
When you are eating, eat totally -
chew totally, taste totally, smell totally.
Touch your bread, feel the texture.
Smell the bread, smell the flavor.
Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.
- Osho
Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
Be an Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The source of most worry is a lack of acceptance
of the uncertainties of the future.
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
When you are eating, eat totally -
chew totally, taste totally, smell totally.
Touch your bread, feel the texture.
Smell the bread, smell the flavor.
Chew it, let it dissolve into your being,
and remain conscious - and you are meditating.
And then meditation is not separate from life.
- Osho
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is,
and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
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