David Alan Royster

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

Give the love that you pray for; someone’s been praying to have it.

And somewhere in my time with you, the crickets emerged as birds and the blackened hills found their hue. My eyes fell on you; I didn’t watch the sun move, but I felt the world turn all night.

Only snails know there is no rush when you learn to carry home with you.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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

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

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

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

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

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!