Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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

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

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. I’m very sensitive to it.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

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

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.