Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.
I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.
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.
Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.
Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!
I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. Im very sensitive to it.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
