God is the same everywhere.
And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
Everything intelligent is so boring.
The ordinary mind is the way.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
