Barba Bush

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the water.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

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?

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

God is the same everywhere.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

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.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.