Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. — 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
