Bodhisattva, would you take me by the hand, can you show…

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

— Gautama Buddha

“For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.”

— Pema Chödrön

When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy…

— Hsing Yun

“Wisdom is a fluid process, not something concrete that can be added up or measured. The warrior-bodhisattva trains with the attitude that everything is…

— Pema Chödrön

Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be…

— Pema Chodron

I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

— Frederick Lenz

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas,…

— Steven Weinberg

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal…

— Aldous Huxley

Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help beings as…

— Tenzin Palmo

To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the…

— Shantideva

We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance.…

— Tenzin Palmo

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

— Gautama Buddha

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and…

— Joanna Macy

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer…

— Nhat Hanh