Buddha

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

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

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

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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

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.

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

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.

God has no religion.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

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.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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

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

We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.