Georges Duhamel

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

We all die unhealed

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I’m not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.