Zen proverb

The ordinary mind is the way.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

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!

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

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

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

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

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.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.