Let go, or be dragged.
Zen proverb
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
Dogen
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
Bodhidharma
Act without expectation.
Lao Tzu
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
Dogen
Wise men don’t judge – they seek to understand.
Wei Wu Wei
The more you know, the less you need.
Yvon Chouinard
Think with your whole body.
Taisen Deshimaru
Roads were made for journeys not destinations.
Confucius
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
Huang Po
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
Dogen
Sleep is the best meditation.
14th Dalai Lama
Singlemindedness is all-powerful. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Wherever you are, it’s the place you need to be.
Maxime Lagacé
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Confucius
It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.
Jon J. Muth
Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
Confucius
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Buddha
Confuse them with your silence and amaze them with your actions.
Unknown
Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
Dogen
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything.
Jack Kerouac
When I’m riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence.
Robin Williams
Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand.
Seungsahn
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart
They call it ‘peace of mind’ but maybe it should be called ‘peace from mind’. Naval Ravikant
But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
Zhuangzi
Pursue not the outer entanglements; dwell not in the inner void; be serene in the oneness of things; and dualism vanishes by itself.
Sengcan
Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.
Ryōkan
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
Rumi
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.
Donna Quesada
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius
I live by letting things happen.
Dogen
Don’t be satisfied with your accomplishment, nor be dissatisfied with it.
Unknown
Obstacles don’t block the path, they are the path.
Zen proverb
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
Zhuangzi
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
Zen proverb
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.
Zen proverb
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.
Zen proverb
When walking, walk. When eating, eat.
Zen proverb
One loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them.
Masanobu Fukuoka
When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. -Shunryu Suzuki
We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.
Shunryu Suzuki
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
Lao Tzu
The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.
Shunryu Suzuki
Relax. Nothing’s missing.
Maxime Lagacé
I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Lao Tzu
If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
14th Dalai Lama