George Saunders Quotes

Go see, ask why, show respect.

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Before the [Buddhist] priests are big trays of delicacies, Behind them lurk graceful nuns. … Kings and Lords only love that little thing

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.

Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

Assume nothing, question everything.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions