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
“Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim,… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise,… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
When there is hallucination, there is the truth, by recognising it as hallucination. Where there is suffering, there is peace and bliss,… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Practice listening to other people talk about their beliefs without interrupting them. Listen to Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons, Anarchists, Republicans, KKK members,… — Timber Hawkeye Copy Share Image
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to… — Dalai Lama 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
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“If there is no wound in your hand You can carry poison in your hand. Poison does not attack one who is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches… — Hsuan Hua Copy Share Image
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is… — Marcia Wallace Copy Share Image
Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Buddhist religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the… — Cristian Machado 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
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
“The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has… — Nāgārjuna Copy Share Image
