Buddhist Proverb

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

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

Right now, it’s like this.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

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

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

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

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

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

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.