Buddha

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.