Right now, it’s like this.
Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.
Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
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.
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.
Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
God is a loving god.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
The valley stream’s rushing sound is the eloquent tongue of Buddha. The mountain’s vibrant colours are nothing but the Buddha’s form.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
