James Feibleman

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

The Buddhist notion of diligence is to delight in positive deeds.

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I’m essentially agnostic. I don’t have a problem with God. I have a problem with religion. I’ve chosen to live my life without the certainties of religious faith. I think they’re dangerous. Music is something that gives my life value and spiritual solace.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.