Buddha

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

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

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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

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.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.