Buddhist Proverb

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

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

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

Right now, it’s like this.

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

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

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

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

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

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.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.