Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
