He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Every day I pray about all I do.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Pray, and let God worry.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Silence is safer than speech.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

There is moderation even in excess.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.