Zen Quotes

331 quotes by 134 authors

I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on.… — G-Eazy
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few — Shunryu Suzuki
Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence. — Mayma
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. — Zen Proverb
I see no comparison between the past and future, both constants share the same ideology. For me the present is the truth. — Jeremy Limn
Religion sees death as a journey to a surreal paradise. I see death as the end of all good and evil. — Jeremy Limn
The secret to finding happiness isn't a matter of where you look, but how. — Rock Cowles
All things end as they start, just like life has a start so it does have an end. The end is the start, and the… — Jeremy Limn
Imagine you're the words than write yourself. You're the pen, your heart is what you write. — Jeremy Limn
One of the fundamentals of Zen that makes it a totally unique religion, more than any other religion of the world, is that it does… — Unknown Author
Zen is not a morality. It never talks about right and wrong. It never talks about the saint and the sinner. It is so respectful… — Unknown Author
Zen is the very principle of existence. Whether there is anyone who teaches it or not, whether there is anyone who learns it or not,… — Unknown Author
Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum leap. It is… — Unknown Author
Zen is so strange as far as intellectual understanding is concerned. It looks almost absurd. That is one of the reasons why it has not… — Unknown Author
In Zen a totally new dimension opens, the dimension of effortless transformation. The dimension of transformation that comes naturally, by clearer eyes, by clarity. By… — Unknown Author
Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that.… — Unknown Author
The bamboo is very much loved by the Zen poets for its tremendous quality of being hollow. Out of this hollowness of the bamboo, a… — Unknown Author
Zen is not a renunciation, it is a rejoicing. It is the manifesto of dance and celebration. — Unknown Author
I am utterly devoted to the present moment. Don't move into the past because that is memory; there is no relevant existence to your memory… — Unknown Author

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