Zen proverb

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

The ordinary mind is the way.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

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

What you possess, you lose.

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

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

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

A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

We all die unhealed