Zen Proverb

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

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

What was never lost can never be found.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

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

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

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. I’m very sensitive to it.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

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.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.