The ordinary mind is the way.
What you possess, you lose.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.
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.
Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Music brought me closer to the idea of God.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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.
Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
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.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.
There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
