God is a loving god.
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.
I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
Isnt it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? Its highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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.
Zen has no business with ideas.
Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.
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.
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!
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.
Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
