A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.
There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.
We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.
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.
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
The Kingdom of God is Within You,
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 man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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.
Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.
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!
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
