Buddha

Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

God is the same everywhere.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. I got the idea from a book by Orlando Smith. Until I discovered this theory I was unsettled and dissatisfied-without a compass, so to speak. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. There was time enough to plan and to create. I wouldn’t give five cents for seeing all the world, because I feel there is nothing in the five continents and on the five seas that I have not somehow seen. Somewhere is a master mind sending brain wave messages to us. There is a Great Spirit. I never did anything by my own volition. I was pushed by invisible forces within and without me. We inherit a native knowledge from a previous existence. Gospel of reincarnation is essence of all knowledge. I do not know where we come from or go to but we accumulate experience. Someday it will be possible to measure the soul. We all retain memories of past lives.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

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

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

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