Zen proverb

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

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

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

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

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

Our God is a forgiving God.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

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.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.