Buddha

Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

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

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

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

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.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

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.

God has no religion.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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.

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.