Right now, it’s like this.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.
Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
God is a loving god.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
Our God is a forgiving God.
God is the same everywhere.
The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.
