The ordinary mind is the way.
When you get there, there isn’t any there there.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.
Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.
The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Your talent is GodÂ’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The concept known as bal tashchit – ‘Do no destroy’ – has a special significance in Jewish tradition…We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong…We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.
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 come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.
When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
