Buddha

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Our God is a forgiving God.

Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.

Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works.

In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.

The concept known as bal tashchit – ‘Do no destroy’ – has a special significance in Jewish tradition…We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong…We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

Right now, it’s like this.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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