Jon J. Muth

What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.

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.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

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

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

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

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

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.