Quotes About Zen

Before and after he was rich, and indeed throughout a life that included being both broke and a billionaire, Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them away for free, and he was a Zen devotee who made a pilgrimage to India and then decided that his calling was to create a business. And yet somehow these attitudes seemed to weave together rather than conflict.

Be in the now.

el satori es una experiencia súbita y se lo describe a menudo como un «vuelco» de la mente

We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

It wasn't so much that she and Penn set out to practice Zen marriage equality and perfect-balance parenting. It was just that there was way more to do than two could manage, but by their both filling every spare moment, some of what needed to got done.

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

There are two things you can do with your head down — play golf and pray.

When are you going to start saying nothing?

This is Zen, she said. No flaw, no moment's hesitation. A window onto grace.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

On a bike your consciousness is small. The harder you work, the smaller it gets. Every thought that arises is immediately and utterly true, every unexpected event is something you'd known all along but had only forgotten for a moment. A pounding riff from a song, a bit of long division that starts over and over, a magnified anger at someone, is enough to fill your thoughts.

The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.

What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind by Norman Fischer.

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? In my photos on my phone, I made an album called "calm." I have photos and videos of my animals, funny pictures, memes, inspiring quotes, articles about neurology, gratitude lists, all sorts of things that make me smile and reconnect to my source. It's like my own personal digital Zen museum.

Tirando cenizas sobre el Buda (La Liebre de Marzo, 1991), del maestro zen Seung Sahn,

Cartas de un maestro de zen (Dharma, 1998).»

The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential . . . in Business and in Life, Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly, and several other books.

Emptiness is the fasting of the mind." –Zhuang Zhou 4th century B.C.

I only take one ball and one day at a time, and if you think like that, you don't feel pressure at all.