Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions. — Tsem Tulku Copy Share Image
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to… — Thanissaro Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
“Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about… — Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief;… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life. — Tsem Tulku Copy Share Image
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. — 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
I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind. — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” Buddhist nun Pema Chodron” — Erin Loechner Copy Share Image
Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
