Zen Lessons Quotes

Do not do that again," he said stiffly.
"Don't kiss me back then," I retorted.
He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because you're another student. I'm doing this to teach you control."
"You're doing a great job," I said bitterly. ~ Richelle Mead

The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens. ~ Pietra Rivoli

[...] insist upon remembering. Because we know that the lessons of yesterday's loss become the fuel for tomorrow's win. ~ Abby Wambach

Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth. ~ Teri Terry

The end is near when your strength becomes the source of discomfort. ~ Manish

Luck often comes to those who are brave. ~ Kateryna Kei

The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide. ~ Susan L. Taylor

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom. ~ Andrea Pirlo

I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life ... I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Sometimes it's just a zen thing and it means shutting the noise out and forming a plan and realizing that as long as it's not going to kill you then you just need to breathe and move past it, ~ Chuck Wendig

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly. ~ Michelle Moran

Passionate embrace your sacred existence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you feel you are not receiving is a direct reflection of what you are not giving. Whatever you are angered by is what you aren't willing to see in yourself.
So where you feel you are lacking, you must give. Where there is tension, you must unpack. If you want more recognition, recognize others. If you want love, be more loving. Give exactly what you want to get. ~ Brianna Wiest

Illusions can and do create PHYSICAL Dis-Ease within our bodies. So it's most important to master our thoughts, to become cognizant of what we are spending our precious mental energy on each moment of every day. ~ Alaric Hutchinson

She looked up at him and said,"What did you say?"
"You have beautiful eyes."
"You told my father that he has beautiful eyes?"
He smiled. "No. You distracted me. I told your father that, while I was very grateful for the lesson, I doubt I would ever need of it again- because I was planning to court only one woman in my lifetime. ~ Sarah MacLean

A tank full of life and a running tap. ~ Saleem Sharma

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more. ~ Dorothy Koomson

The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. ~ Kamal Ravikant

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. ~ Mother Teresa

A philosophically informed vision helps us respond to reversals intelligently, not Impulsively, so that we can act to mitigate the situation, not aggravate it. ~ Chaitanya Charan Das

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall ~ Paolo Nutini

Perspective, patience, & trust. One derived from the past, one applied now, and one for the future. Powerful allies for your journey in life. ~ Gary Rudz

Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood. ~ Chandra Wilson

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue. ~ Martin Scorsese

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us. ~ Danielle Panabaker

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. ~ Robert Breault

The standard-brand religions [...] are - as now practiced - like exhausted mines: very hard to dig. With some exceptions not too easily found, their ideas about man and the world, their imagery, their rites, and their notions of the good life don't seem to fit in with the universe as we now know it, or with a human world that is changing so rapidly that much of what one learns in school is already obsolete on graduation day. ~ Alan W. Watts

The people of Earth cannot progress in isolation from each other. The family unit, community spirit, and society as a whole are fragmenting at alarming rates as we sit inert behind our devices and social media. Fear of cultural appropriation inhibits the inspiration necessary for others to create new things. We must build on the towering achievements of all those who have gone before us. Then, by pooling our resources, regardless of race, colour, creed, gender, sexuality, or physical ability, we ensure that our legacy is a rich inheritance for all those yet to be born. ~ Stewart Stafford

It is an inherent nature of life: Whenever success is in your reach, it tosses either an unexpected obstacle or an alluring offer, straight on your path. That unexpected manifestation, obstacle or offer, would either prompt you to press the panic button or distract your focus from your target. As you become busy dealing with the fresh situation, time, with its own flair, flies miles away from your reach, with the reward in offer. Those who endure, without getting disturbed by the obstacle or decoyed by the illusive offer, will reap the fruit. Others will flop, falling as victims to life's conspiracy. ~ Hari Parameshwar

Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you. ~ Michael Harmon

You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key. ~ Truth Devour

Be proactive; and ready to run if proactive backfires. ~ Jesse Petersen

Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them. ~ Nenia Campbell

Wealth can procure many things in this world, but Elden was the first person in my life to give real meaning to the things it cannot buy. ~ Micheline Ryckman

Keep your opinion to yourself unless it's asked for. ~ Alaric Hutchinson

I had been taking various lessons. I've also had a lot of incredible singers give me a ton of great advice. From Cyndi Lauper, who kind of taught me the basics, and I've also worked with Bird. She's a tremendous coach and she often coaches the contestants on American Idol. I've had a great amount of support. ~ Margaret Cho

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy. ~ Frederick Lenz

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. ~ Ouida

Be thou of Zen. Remember, in tranquillity, that the Absolute, the Tao, is within thee, that no priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain. ~ James Clavell

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank. ~ Flavor Flav