Buddha

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

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.

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

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

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

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

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.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

Right now, it’s like this.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. I got the idea from a book by Orlando Smith. Until I discovered this theory I was unsettled and dissatisfied-without a compass, so to speak. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. There was time enough to plan and to create. I wouldn’t give five cents for seeing all the world, because I feel there is nothing in the five continents and on the five seas that I have not somehow seen. Somewhere is a master mind sending brain wave messages to us. There is a Great Spirit. I never did anything by my own volition. I was pushed by invisible forces within and without me. We inherit a native knowledge from a previous existence. Gospel of reincarnation is essence of all knowledge. I do not know where we come from or go to but we accumulate experience. Someday it will be possible to measure the soul. We all retain memories of past lives.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

God is a loving god.