Buddha

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

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

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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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.

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

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

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.

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

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.