Buddha

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

I’m essentially agnostic. I don’t have a problem with God. I have a problem with religion. I’ve chosen to live my life without the certainties of religious faith. I think they’re dangerous. Music is something that gives my life value and spiritual solace.

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.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

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.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.