Seung Sahn

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

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Zen has no business with ideas.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

We all die unhealed

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

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

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

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

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.