Seung Sahn

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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.

The concept known as bal tashchit – ‘Do no destroy’ – has a special significance in Jewish tradition…We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong…We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

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

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.