Sharon Salzberg

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

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

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

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

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.