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Psychology Quotes by Gautama Buddha

108 Psychology quotes by Gautama Buddha

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Gautama Buddha teaches that the mind shapes the world around us, like an artist draws a picture. He warns that greed, hate, and delusion are imperfections that dirty the mind. He also advises that sitting calmly and watching each breath can clear the mind and open the heart.

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Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind

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The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.

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The mind contains all possibilities.

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Fill your mind with compassion.

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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.

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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

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The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even…

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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

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Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

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Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

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I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,…

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The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind…

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Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given,…

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Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent…

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In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not…

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Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through…

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Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true…

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Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner…

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Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful.…

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Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the…

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Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness…

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How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled…

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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to…

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May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to…

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is…

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Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind…

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“So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake…

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Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.

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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

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It is your mind that creates the world.

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Our life is a creation of our mind.

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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

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The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

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A disciplined mind brings happiness.

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