Zen Proverb

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

The ordinary mind is the way.

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

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

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

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

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

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

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.

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

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

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

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.