Zen Sayings
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
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Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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Be still and know who you are.
- Kirtana
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.
- Osho
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
- Deepak Chopra
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
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
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,
time stops completely,
disappears,
leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
Can you let go of words and ideas,
attitudes and expectations?
If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- Lao Tzu
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
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
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Be an Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows;
your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
- Osho
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Mind Sayings
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
My Mind Sparks; My Soul Sparkles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I open my mind to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the poet of my mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Knowledge is of the mind, wisdom is of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
I come to life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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