Bodhisattva Quote by Aldous Huxley

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

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

“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

“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

Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I,…

— Gautama Buddha

“Reverend Mahakasyapa, the Maras who play the devil in the innumerable universes of the ten directions are all Bodhisattvas dwelling in the inconcievable liberation,…

— Vimalakirti

The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by…

— Alan Watts

“Nirvana is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven…

— 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

“Buddhism—a faith Jobs studied intensely—teaches that if you are going to prepare a cup of tea, the making of the cup of tea should…

— Adam Lashinsky