Buddha

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

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

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

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

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

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

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

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

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

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.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

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

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

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.