In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
When you get there, there isn’t any there there.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.
Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.
It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
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.
