Sharon Salzberg

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

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

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

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

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.

The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. – John Elderidge

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.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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

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

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.