Buddha

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

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

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

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Be kind to all creatures; this is the true 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.

The valley stream’s rushing sound is the eloquent tongue of Buddha. The mountain’s vibrant colours are nothing but the Buddha’s form.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

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

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

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

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God has no religion.

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I’m not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,