Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned. — 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
Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man… — 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
