The ordinary mind is the way.
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.
What was never lost can never be found.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki
Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.
I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Right now, it’s like this.
A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.
God is the same everywhere.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.
