Buddha

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

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

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

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

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

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

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

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

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

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

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.

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

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

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

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.