Lao Tzu

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish – don’t overdo it.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

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.

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

God is a loving god.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Zen has no business with ideas.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

Zen mind is not Zen mind. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.