Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

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

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

God is a loving god.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

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