Leo Buscaglia

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

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

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The ordinary mind is the way.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.

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.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Our God is a forgiving God.

All beings are by nature Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

We all die unhealed