Bodhisattva Quote by Ajahn Chah

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer…

— Nhat Hanh

“The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most…

— Abraham H. Maslow

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is…

— Joseph Campbell

“Shortsighted people make [experientialism and social reform] opposites, mutually exclusive. [...] The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“150 The Arhat IN OUR SOCIETY, we’re inclined to see doing nothing as something negative, even evil. But when we lose ourselves in activities,…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Bodhisattvas are referred to as enlightened “heroes” or “warriors.” They are highly altruistic beings who have the wisdom to realize that by dedicating themselves…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it…

— Pema Chödrön

Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying…

— Dogen

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not…

— Anonymous

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the…

— Shantideva

“For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.”

— Pema Chödrön