Gene Clark

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.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Zen mind is not Zen mind. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

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

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

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.