Buddhist Quotes And Sayings – Feel The Essence Of Buddhism

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Do you wish to learn more about Buddhism? Do you wish to embrace Buddhist spirituality? Read through these enlightening and spiritually inspiring Buddhist quotes and sayings.

“Right now, I’m following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.”
– Aishwarya Rai

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
– Alan Wilson Watts

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
– Alan Wilson Watts

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
– Albert Einstein

“Patience has all the time it needs.”
– Allan Lokos

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
– Allan Lokos

“Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.”
– Allan Lokos

“NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become. To be absolutely wise and good –that is perfection; and the Theosophist is so keen-sighted as to have observed that everything desirous of improvement eventually attains perfection. Less competent observers are disposed to except cats, which seem neither wiser nor better than they were last year. The greatest and fattest of recent Theosophists was the late Madame Blavatsky, who had no cat.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)”
– Anne Lamott

“It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.”
– Anne Lamott

“Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.”
– Anonymous

“When the pastor’s teen son is sexually active and having many romps with his 15-year-old girlfriend, this Jesus says, ‘A kid has to be a kid. I don’t think NBC would have portrayed a Muslim cleric or a Buddhist monk, the Dalai Lama, in a show this way. Why? Because they know to do so would be mean-spirited and insensitive.”
– Author Unknown

“If while on your way you meet no one your equal or better, steadily continue on your way alone. There is no fellowship with fools.”
– Author Unknown

“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 to me about this guy, first, is that he’s incredible with visuals. But he’s also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. … Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That’s all I’m saying.”
– Avi Arad

“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”
– Bodhidharma

“A jug fills drop by drop.”
– Buddha

“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
– Buddha

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
– Buddha

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
– Buddha

“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
– Buddha

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
– Buddha

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
– Buddha

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
– Buddha

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
– Buddha

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
– Buddha

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
– Buddha

“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.”
– Buddha

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
– Buddha

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
– Buddha

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
– Buddha

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
– Buddha

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
– Buddha

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
– Buddha

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
– Buddha

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