Buddha

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

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.

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

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

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

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

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.

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.

Our God is a forgiving God.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

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

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

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.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

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

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

What you possess, you lose.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.