Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
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.
What was never lost can never be found.
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!
Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.
There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
God has no religion.
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
