Bodhidharma

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

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.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

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.

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

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.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

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.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.