Buddhist Proverb

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

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.

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

Right now, it’s like this.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

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.

God is the same everywhere.

God has no religion.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.

Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.

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!

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.