Buddhism Quotes · Page 143

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being…

— Walter Isaacson

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.…

— Frederick Lenz

“We are participatory beings who inhabit a participatory reality, seeking relationships that enhance our sense of what it means to be alive.…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.”

— Laurence Gardner

“Because I follow Jesus, then, I am bound to Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, atheists, New Agers, everyone (even religious broadcasters, I…

— Brian D. McLaren

The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at…

— Rajneesh

There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they…

— Frederick Lenz

Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave…

— Frederick Lenz

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“No one looks or feels attractive when angry.”

— Allan Lokos

We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a…

— Frederick Lenz

“Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen…

— Desmond Biddulph

There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good…

— Frederick Lenz

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

— Pema Chodron

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

— Tara Brach

“Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship will fall apart if…

— Mark Epstein

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and…

— Anonymous

You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.

— Frederick Lenz

Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's…

— Frederick Lenz

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have…

— Frederick Lenz

“The only path wide for us all is love.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case…

— James K. Morrow

Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever…

— Deepak Chopra

You can keep your own religion - Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism - you just need to add Jesus to the equation. Then…

— Rick Warren

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

— Anonymous

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely…

— Jon Spaihts

There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are…

— Frederick Lenz

“Suzuki: We must keep one thing always before our minds, . . . which is, that Buddhist thought is always the outcome…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“The world will continue to make life difficult until you stop choosing the easy path every time. - Dharma ”

— Sophie McKeand

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

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

— Nhat Hanh

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

— Frederick Lenz

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let…

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

— Gautama Buddha

The Kundalini resides in the base of the spine. It's a bit of a misnomer because the kundalini really is not so…

— Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human…

— Noam Chomsky

I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would…

— Frederick Lenz