Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Whether we are ready or not, the age of intelligent coexistence is no longer coming. It is already here.” — James S. Coates Copy Share Image
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
“Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address… — Marianne Williamson 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
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will… — Suresh Jindal Copy Share Image
“Dogs are not our playthings. They are sentient beings with their own opinions and feelings. We expect them to fit into our… — Beverley Courtney Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead.… — Ana Paula Maia Copy Share Image
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“There is no place which is not imbued with the Way. It pervades all things and all sentient beings.” — Ta-Mo Copy Share Image
Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation. — Reb Anderson Copy Share Image
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
“Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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