Dad?" Jesus asked."Yes, son?" God asked."Why do people get sick?" Jesus asked."When they live, life is all about learning so that when the are ready, they can join us here," God said."But, doesn't it...
He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .
There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.
A god should not favor any race, any being or any human.A god should not encourage hate, murder, worship or zealotry.A god who does so has no right to be called a god at all.
God believes in you. So why don't you?
If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.
What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
It occurs to me that the man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with...
The beauty of God, is God himself.
You have to risk falling to be able to fly.
One who knows the Self, knows God.
You have to choose your future regrets.
Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
I am not that afraid to lose believers, I am afraid not to win the unbelievers.
Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in h...
The God that humanity so keenly seeks, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.
If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.
Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. This allegory of a physical mount...