Zen Saying

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

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

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

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

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

God is a loving god.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

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

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.