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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan… — Doug "Ten" Rose Copy Share Image
What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
Crucial to how we feel is being aware of how we are feeling in the moment. The sine qua non of that… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices. — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience. — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth)… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
