To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.
God is the same everywhere.
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Right now, it’s like this.
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.
