1. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
2. “Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it.” ― Soyen Shaku
3. “The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.” ― Koun Yamada
4. “It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.” ― Osho
5. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” ― Eckhart Tolle
6. “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”- Alan Watts
7. “Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.” ― Chuang Tzu
8. “I don’t have a preconception of a perfect day because if I did then it would ruin the day that I was living.” ― Naval Ravikant
9. “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?– Dogen
10. “I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.” ― Byron Katie
11. “For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.” ― Thích Nhat Hanh
12. “When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.” ― Eckhart Tolle
13. “Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.” ― Soyen Shaku
14. “One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.” ― Dogen
15. “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” ― Eckhart Tolle
16. “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
17. “The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.” ― Ram Dass
18. “When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.” ― Zen Graffiti
19. “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.” ― Eckhart Tolle
20. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ― Buddha
21. “What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.” ― Alan Keightley
22. “To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.” ― Suzuki Roshi
23. “Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.” ― Huang Po
24. “Don’t believe everything you think.” ― Byron Katie
25. “Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.” ― Buddha
26. “The less you judge things, including the contents of your mind, the more clearly you’ll see them.” ― Robert Wright
27. “Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life — after that you cannot be deceived.” ― Zen Proverb
28. “The problem with winning the rat race is: you’re still a rat.” ― Lily Tomlin
29. “Think with your whole body.” ― Taisen Deshimar
30. “It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.” ― Osho
31. “The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.” ― Thich Nhat Hahn
32. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
33. “If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
34. “Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.” ― Maezumi Roshi
35. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” ― Lao Tzu
36. “The good life can be as simple as just paying attention.” ― Charlie Ambler
37. “Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.” ― Nagarjuna
38. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” ― Jack Kornfield
39. “Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.” ― Zen Proverb
40. “Wherever you are, be there totally.” ― Eckhart Tolle
41. “Realize that life will never be how you want it to be. Jump in regardless. The jump itself is living; its whole spectrum, its entire beauty.” – Mr. Mircea
42. “And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.” ― Dr. Seuss
43. “To understand everything is to forgive everything“- Gautama Siddhartha
44. “If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.” ― B. D. Schiers
45. “Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.” ― Maezumi Roshi
46. “To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.” ― Thich Nhat Hạnh
47. “Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.” ― Tilopa
48. “When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
49. “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” —Zen Proverb
50. “Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true.” —Adyashanti
51. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” ― Eckhart Tolle
52. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” ― Thích Nhat Hanh
53. “Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
