Moment of Zen

“once you can see the boundaries of your experience, they are no longer the boundaries of your experience.”
– Marshall Mcluhan

Moment of Zen

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
– Bahá’u’lláh

I came across this quote over at PSDTUTS, in a tutorial for creating the above spectacular grass text effect in Photoshop.

Moment of Zen

The thirty spokes unite in the one center; but it is on the empty space for the axle that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out from the walls to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space that its use depends. Therefore, whatever has existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what does not have existence for actual usefulness.
– Lao Tzu
Tao Ching, (The Book of Changes)

Moment of Zen

“Happy are those who give without remembering and receive without forgetting”
-Anonymous

via a comment in The Builder by Shekhar Kapur.

Moment of Zen

Koi dam ka mehman hun ai ahle mehfil/ Charaagh-e-sehar hun bujhnaa chaahta hun/ Meri hawa men rahegi khayaal ki bijli Yeh musht-e-khaaq hai faani, rahe na rahe

‘O friends of the gathering, I am just a guest of the last few breaths/ I’m a lamp of the morning about to burn out/ My ideas will fly in the winds like the flashes of lightening/ My body is only a heap of dust, it may or may not be there.
– Bhagat Singh – reportedly written in a letter hours before being hanged

via Tehelka

Moment of Zen

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle

via zen habits

Moment of Zen

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
– Steven Wright

Moment of Zen

“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”
– Albert Einstein

I came across this quote in “It’s Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living“

Moment of Zen

“Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.”

– Kahlil Gibran

via avalonstar

Moment of Zen

“I think your organization particularly depends too much on principle and not enough on fact,” Jobs told the Greenpeace representatives. “You guys rate people based on what people say their plans are in the distant future, not what they are doing today. I think you put way too much weight on these glorified principles and way too little weight on science and engineering. It would be very helpful if your organization hired a few more engineers and actually entered into dialog with companies to find out what they are really doing and not just listen to all the flowery language when, in reality, most of them aren’t doing anything. That’s my opinion.”

– Steve Jobs