“Reach out! Take a chance! Get hurt maybe. But play as well as you can…” MAUDE: Like a puff, Harold? HAROLD: Well, I really don’t smoke. MAUDE: It’s all right. It’s organic. HAROLD: I sure am picking up on vices. MAUDE: Vice? Virtue? It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of [...]

“He has said to us that we can keep it!” Elusive artist Banksy made his own addition to the collection of Gallery 49 in the British Museum. A drawing in the style of prehistoric cave art showing a caveman with a shopping trolley, appeared alongside finds from 4th Century Roman Britain. A British Museum spokeswoman [...]

“…it is quite possible for a 4 year old to humble an adult to ‘scum under shoe’ status…” Before finding an Art Teaching position, I worked part time as an Assistant Preschool Teacher. The pay was lousy, but I got to eat popsicles and graham crackers every day, rub backs at naptime, and sing the [...]

A Bit of Fun… The Other Side of Life… One day a young Buddhist traveller came to the banks of a wide and deep river. There was no way to cross and he walked along the edge of the water for miles, feeling hopeless. Just as he was about to give up and go back [...]

Zen Moments are the small things that make a huge difference… Zen Moments happen at times when we stop pushing to try to get somewhere else, when we open our hearts and minds to the present moment, to that which is right in front of us… Zen Moments are the moments of magic, when extraordinary [...]

If you enjoy Zen Moments, there are several ways you can help us to keep it growing… Zen Moments is a place for you to share stories of the special moments from your own life, or the stories that have inspired you. We plan to publish a new story every few days. Zen Moments began [...]