Zen Proverb

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.

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

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

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

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

God has no religion.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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.