Quotes About Contentment

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

First of all, I'm over sixty. And second of all, I'm the sort of fellow to whom life and death are the same.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings.

But as long as you think, "I am doing this," or "I have to do this," or "I must attain something special," you are actually not doing anything... when you do not try to do anything special, then you do something. When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.

We should not attach to some fancy ideas or to some beautiful things. We should not seek for something good. The truth is always near at hand, within your reach.

It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it.

To have a headache will be all right, because you are healthy enough to have a headache.

Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

I think that is what you do. Instead of working with the problems you have, you cause yourself more problems by seeking for something else. But there is no need to seek for anything. You have plenty of problems, just enough

If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling.

So try not to see something in particular; try not to achieve anything special. You already have everything in your own pure quality. If you understand this ultimate fact, there is no fear. There may be some difficulty, of course, but there is no fear.

Knowing that your life is short, to enjoy it day after day, moment after moment, is the life of "form is form and emptiness is emptiness.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

Reminiscing success gives more pleasure than the moment itself!!!!

Success is shortlived when accompanied by contentment

You know you're over it .... if you don't need to laugh it off and still have a smile on your face.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

They have never found that area within themselves where they can be peaceful with who they are, what they are, and where they are. In

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without.