Buddhism Quotes

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

— Anonymous

Life is perfect, it glows.

— Frederick Lenz

Quality is the Buddha.

— Robert M. Pirsig

What you think you become.

— Gautama Buddha

Om :- the power

— Rajat Dogra

Your nature is the Buddha.

— Bodhidharma

We can always begin again.

— Anonymous

Buddhism in one long prayer.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

— Dalai Lama

“The only education is enlightenment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Patience has all the time it needs.”

— Allan Lokos

“Forgiveness is for Buddhists.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“What we do is dictated by what we are doing.”

— Jill Spiewak Eng

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again”

— Sharon Salzberg

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

— Frederick Lenz

The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

— Frederick Lenz

To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question.

— Frederick Lenz

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

— Anonymous

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

— Jack Kornfield

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

— Brie Larson

“The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.”

— Bashar

“The European prosperity driven by silver and Atlantic trade was the context of the rationalizing assertions of Enlightenment thinkers.”

— John Tutino

Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each…

— Frederick Lenz

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a…

— John Frusciante

If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex…

— Frederick Lenz

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

— Frederick Lenz

“Truly experiencing the Principle Oneness is all about recognizing and allowing meaningful, loving connections with your broader self. Enlightenment is realizing you…

— Russell Anthony Gibbs

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is…

— Nhat Hanh

Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence…

— Frederick Lenz

“When one gathers all the books of all worldly religions, when one beholds (dharan) them, then the phenomenon of religious upholding (dharma…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Too often, contemporary continental philosophers take the “other” of philosophy to mean literature, but not religion, which is for them just a…

— John D. Caputo

“On the basis of its ethical quality, the Buddha distinguishes kamma into two major categories: the unwholesome (akusala) and the wholesome (kusala).…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“It doesn't matter what path you choose to reach it. Be it Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, quantum physics, Taoism, atheism—what…

— Ricky Martin

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…

— Hannes Alfven

Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a…

— Frederick Lenz

“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was…

— N.T. Wright

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is…

— Isabella Bird