Sting

Axel Vervoordt’s talent is to find the spirit of any place he transforms, and to reflect it back within design.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

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

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

The Buddhist notion of diligence is to delight in positive deeds.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

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.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.

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.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

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

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.