Zen Proverb

The ordinary mind is the way.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

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

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

What you possess, you lose.

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

God has no religion.

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

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

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

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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.