Zen Proverb

If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

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.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.