Zen proverb

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

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

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

The ordinary mind is the way.

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

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

God has no religion.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant source of energy, determination and kindness.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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.

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.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. – John Elderidge

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

God is a loving god.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.