But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had…

Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all…

— Huineng

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is…

— Alexander Gardner

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important…

— Avi Arad

What you think you become.

— Gautama Buddha

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if…

— Robert M. Pirsig

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close

With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were…

— John Ankerberg

If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing…

— Harriet Lerner

When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped…

— Barack Obama

Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do…

— Philip Roberts

How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human…

— Sam Harris

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead…

— Maajid Nawaz

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

— Dennis Prager

“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely…

— Richard Rohr