Buddhist Proverb

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

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

Right now, it’s like this.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

What you possess, you lose.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

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

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

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

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.

Zen has no business with ideas.

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