What you possess, you lose.
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.
Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.
What was never lost can never be found.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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.
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
