The ordinary mind is the way.
Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.
The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. – John Elderidge
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
