The Buddha Quotes
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared.
The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.
If you want to be free of the wars of the world, begin by resolving the wars within you. If you want to see the world at peace, create peace within your mind.
All is contained within the silence of death, the quietest and the loudest sound in the universe.
I didn’t know that the times we spent together on the weekends, the times that we laughed together, and the times you helped me out was your way of silently wishing me a beautiful goodbye.
With nowhere to go, we have everywhere else to go.
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.
Let us live for passion, / for the taking off of clothes, /tossing them over our shoulder.
The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.
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.
The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.
I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.
In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.
With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.
Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.
The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world, it's like a line painted on the sidewalk.
Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.
I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.
The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved
When it comes to happiness, there is a choice to be made, let go of negativity, do not let your light fade.
Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa
Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.
May we eat only foods that nourish us and prevent illnes.. May we accept this food for the realization of the way of understanding and love.
It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean
Remove the letter 'I'(EGO) and word 'WANT'(DESIRE) from the statement "I WANT HAPPINESS" and you will be remained with 'HAPPINESS
Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.
When mindfulness is present, the Buddha and the Holy Spirit are already there,
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.
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.
All beings tremble before violence.All fear death.All love life.See yourself in others.Then whom can you hurt?What harm can you do?
Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.
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.
Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth, Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.
Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child, so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness, hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children.