Success

A truly successful career does not pursue goals of future success.

If you enjoy and find meaning in the job you're doing right now, it's already a success.

Snow meditation

Looking up in the sky, trying to see the point from which the snow is falling.

Nothing holy

廓然無聖 
Vast emptiness, nothing holy.
(Kakunen mushõ.) 

~ Bodhidharma

Source.

Unrequited love

Unrequited love is a promise of the real one. It feels painful, like a promise of a place you can never get to. 

And the real love, on the contrary, feels very natural, like you're already where you want to be, like it's nothing special, - because, at last, you've arrived home safely. 

Genro's cave

A cloud rests at the mouth of the cave
Doing nothing all day.
The moonlight penetrates the waves through the night,
But leaves no trace in the water.

~ Genro's comment in The Iron Flute Koan Collection

Subtlety

入林不動草、入水不立波

"Entering the forest he moves not the grass;

Entering the water he makes not a ripple." 

~ Zenrin Kushû (The Way of Zen 152, 224)

Source

Alertness

When a small insect flies by so close to your skin that you can feel the movement of the air caused by its wings.

November

Feeding the swine with acorns for the winter
from "Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry"