The ordinary mind is the way.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
What was never lost can never be found.
Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works.
Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
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.
Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
