Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

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

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant source of energy, determination and kindness.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

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

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.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.