Zen Proverb

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

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

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

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

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

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.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

What you possess, you lose.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.