I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the… — William James Copy Share Image
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown.… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
