Zen Proverb

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

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

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

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

What you possess, you lose.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

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

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

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

The valley stream’s rushing sound is the eloquent tongue of Buddha. The mountain’s vibrant colours are nothing but the Buddha’s form.

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.

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

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.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.