The ordinary mind is the way.
Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.
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.
What you possess, you lose.
The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.
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.
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant source of energy, determination and kindness.
Our God is a forgiving God.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.
The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.
There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.
