Buddha Quotes
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past not to worry about the future nor to anticipate troubles but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
When it comes to happiness, there is a choice to be made, let go of negativity, do not let your light fade.
The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.
What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.
Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.
Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.
Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.
I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.
An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation
Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.
When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.
Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?
As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Each situation is a blossom to be picked with a curious spirit.
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.
I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa
Let us live for passion, / for the taking off of clothes, /tossing them over our shoulder.
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
