Oscar Wilde

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

True friends stab you in the front.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten

The ordinary mind is the way.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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.

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

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.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

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.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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

God is the same everywhere.

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.