Quotes About Zen

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We're so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important...We can't read all the good books, watch all the good films, go to all the best cities in the world, try all the best restaurants, meet all the great people...Life is better when we don't try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful.

Leo Babauta

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Rumi

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

Zen Proverb

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

Dogen

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C.S. Lewis

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