Zen quotes by Sun sign

[Mona Lisa]

Aries
"Move and the way will open." - Zen Proverb
"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
"Nothing is more real than nothing." Samuel Beckett
"And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it." Ernest Hemingway

Tarus
"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine" - Shunryu Suzuk
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." - Shakespeare
"In singing and dancing is the voice of the law." Hakuin
"The sun shines not on us, but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing." John Muir

Gemini
"If you are in the future, then ego seems to be very substantial. If you are in the present the ego is a mirage, it starts disappearing." - Osho
"The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One.." Hsin-hsin ming
"The reverse side also has a reverse side" - Japanese Proverb
"In the sun the butterfly wings like a church window." Jack Kerouac

Cancer
"When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home." - Muso Soseki
"All the fish needs is to get lost in water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao." Chuang-Tzu
"Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours." Shunryu Suzuki
"The knowledge beyond the knowledge is my knowledge." Kabir

Leo
"Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that." Erich Heller
"We feel and know that we are eternal." Edmund Spenser
"A gloss on Descartes: Sometimes I think: and sometimes I am." Paul Valery

Virgo
"Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs." Rudyard Kipling
"They arise spontaneously, the principles of all things. Water need not think to offer itself as a home for clear moonlight." Sogi
"Every situation, every moment is of infinite worth for it is representative of a whole eternity." John Wolfgang von Goethe

Libra
"The Truth is perfect like the vastness of space, With nothing wanting, nothing superfluous." Hsin-hsin ming
"Today is absolutely today. Today is not yesterday. Today is not tomorrow." - Ogui
"Do not conquer the world with force, force only causes resistance. Years of misery follow a great victory." Lao Tze
"When we return to the root, we gain the meaning. When we pursue the external objects, we lose the purpose. The moment we are enlightened within, We go beyond the voidness of a world confronting us." Hsin-hsin ming

Scorpio
"Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know." - Zen Proverb
"When you seek it, you cannot find it." - Zen Proverb
"Who is it that hears this?" Bassui's "Essential Zen"
"It is the stars not known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows." Henry David Thoreau

Sagittarius
"Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys." - Andre Gide
"The infinite is the infinite of every instant." - Zen Proverb
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure." - Helen Keller
"Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules--this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live." - D. T. Suzuki

Capricorn
"Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life." - Milarepa
"There is nothing left to you at this moment but to have a good laugh." - Zen Master
"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise." Greek Proverb
"Bellygoat boom At ache of Day bang." Jack Kerouac

Aquarius
"Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water." - D. T. Suzuki
"First thought, best thought." Zen saying
"Read not the times, read the eternities." Henry David Thoreau
"Wherever you are is the entry point." Kabir

Pisces
"Who is awake and who is asleep? Lalla
"This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary." - Brian Perkins
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
"If you understand, things are just as they are... If you do not understand, things are just as they are." - Zen Saying
"Often I am still listening when the song is over." - Marquis de Saint-Lambert