Buddha

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

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

Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

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

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.