Bodhidharma

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

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.

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. I’m very sensitive to it.

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.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

God has no religion.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.