“Energy does not judge, it merely creates.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Yes, contrast teaches us a great many things and there is purpose for it. Yet it is time to transcend your everyday dramas that are but drops in an ocean. Cease focusing on your droplets of water and look around you. Everything you say and touch and do sets into motion ripples that either heal and create or curse and destroy. Let me repeat: Everything.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Fairy tales and stories of fantasy bridge the gap and inspires the heart and mind wherever religious thought reaches its limits or meets a dead end. In other words, fairy tales are spiritual in nature, rising above set dogmas and traditions to provide a modern and universal spiritual nourishment for the human soul.”
“Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not that hard. When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer-slow, tedious, lumbering, laborious, but invincible. It takes twice as long, five times as long, maybe a dozen times as long as informal mechanic's techniques, but you know in the end you're going to get it. There's no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy," and you crank up the formal scientific method.”
“We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation.”