50 Zen Quotes To Nurture Your Spirit
Looking for the best Zen quotes? These 50 epic Zen quotes will show you what true calm and wisdom is all about.
Hey my friend,
Let’s chat about Zen quotes.
The following quotes about Zen will instantly warm your heart.
These Zen quotes will also make you realise what TRUE calm and peace looks like.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest Zen quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 Zen quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
ZEN QUOTES
1 – Wherever you are, it’s the place you need to be. Maxime Lagacé
2 – There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
3 – If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. Buddha
4 – The way to free yourself of pain and suffering is to accept it. Charlie Ambler
5 – These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb. Najwa Zebian
6 – Let go, or be dragged. Zen Proverb
7- The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. Buddha
8 – Awareness is the greatest agent for change. Eckhart Tolle
9 – The words of the Buddha offer this truth: Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed. Jack Kornfield
10 – When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
ZEN QUOTES
11 – Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath. Huang Po
12 – The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. Confucius
13 – The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. Shunryu Suzuki
14 – Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. Dalai Lama
15 – Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. Zen Proverb
16 – They call it ‘peace of mind’ but maybe it should be called ‘peace from mind’. Naval Ravikant
17- Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. Dalai Lama
18 – Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. Jack Kerouac
19 – What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. Confucius
20 – We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk
ZEN QUOTES
21 – If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Sun Tzu
22 – All that we are, is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. Buddha
23 – To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love, and joy underneath the pain is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle
24 -Learn to be comfortable in adversity but most importantly, learn to be comfortable when you’re bored. Maxime Lagacé
25 – Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. People believe mistakenly that happiness is about positive thoughts and positive action but every positive thought essentially holds within itself a negative thought. Naval Ravikant
26 – If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich. Lao Tzu
27- Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. Shunryu Suzuki
28 – If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person. Thich Nhat Hanh
29 – Act without expectation. Lao Tzu
30 – If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Lao Tzu
ZEN QUOTES
31 – Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes a cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee
32 – You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely. Chris Prentiss
33 – Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. Lin Yutang
34 – Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are. Ramesh Balsekar
35 – A good life can be as simple as just paying attention. Charlie Ambler
36 – To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss. Bodhidharma
37- The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. Thich Nhat Hanh
38 – It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more. Thich Nhat Hanh
39 – There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
40 – You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
ZEN QUOTES
41 – Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. Jack Kornfield
42 – Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. Jack Kornfield
43 – The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands. Robert M. Pirsig
44 – Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
45 – Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha
46 – Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. Buddha
47- The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee
48 – Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction. Alan W. Watts
49 – You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
50 – When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. Dalai Lama
BONUS: Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Prema Chödrön
BONUS: Do not follow the idea of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Dōgen Zenji
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Frances Vidakovic
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