Buddha

Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.

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

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

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.

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

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

God is a loving god.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

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

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

The valley stream’s rushing sound is the eloquent tongue of Buddha. The mountain’s vibrant colours are nothing but the Buddha’s form.

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

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

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

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

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.

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