What you possess, you lose.
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.
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.
Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.
I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
The Kingdom of God is Within You,
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
God is a loving god.
To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
All beings are by nature Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.
