What you possess, you lose.
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
What was never lost can never be found.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
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.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.
