Zen Journal

"Try not to change the world.
You will fail.
Try and love the world.
Lo, the world is changed.
Changed forever."

"To love is to recognize yourself in another."

"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"Nobody, whether it’s your current mate or some dreamed-of partner in the future, has any obligation to deliver your happiness on a platter — nor could they even if they wanted to. Real love comes not from trying to solve our neediness by depending on another, but by developing our own inner richness and maturity. Then we have so much love to give that we naturally draw lovers towards us."

"My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life."

"A flower falls even though we love it; a weed flourishes even though we do not love it."