No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light? — 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
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
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of… — 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
You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon… — 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
