The ordinary mind is the way.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
What you possess, you lose.
What was never lost can never be found.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.
You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.
The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.
I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I’m not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
God is a loving god.
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
Zen has no business with ideas.
