Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

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

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

God has no religion.

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 myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

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

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

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