Right now, it’s like this.
Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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.
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. Im very sensitive to it.
Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
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.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.
It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.