evolved ZEN

Mandatory Mindset: Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? —Jack Kornfield

Individual Mystery: Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. —Charles Dickens

Anti-Aging Secret: Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. —Franz Kafka

Knowledge Vs. Wisdom: You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom. —Herbie Hancock

Age Doesn't Mean Wisdom: It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. —Menander

Death At First Breath: It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. —Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Good Ideas: The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. —Linus Pauling

Final Truth: The pretensions of final truth are always partly an effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. —Reinhold Niebuhr

It's Not Everywhere: Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life. —Robert Greene

Wise Delegation: Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if it were their own. —Harry S. Truman

Look Within: The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. —Buddha

Belief Over Will: The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct belief. —Louis Pasteur

Self Destruction Alert: Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. —Henry David Thoreau

Love Is Hard: Understanding love is one of the hardest things in the world. —Fred Rogers

Daily Rebirth: Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. —Buddha

Relax, Let Go: If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. —Edith Wharton

Effects Of Knowing Life: She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair. —Buddha