Psychology Quote by Bhikkhu Bodhi Download Open image ““The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding.”” — Bhikkhu Bodhi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Psychology
“As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself.” — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha ” — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the… — Tulku Urgyen Copy Share Image
“For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that we can… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.” — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Buddha believed that the less you judge things—including the contents of your mind—the more clearly you’ll see them, and the less deluded you’ll be.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“I think at times such as when we are facing a difficult situation we have an opportunity to really internalize the teachings of the… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
“As the Buddha says, We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” — Leonard Scheff Copy Share Image
“To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
“Good friendship, in Buddhism, means considerably more than associating with people that one finds amenable and who share one's interests. It means in effect… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“Like a lake unruffled by any breeze, the concentrated mind is a faithful reflector that mirrors whatever is placed before it exactly as it… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties,… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that we can… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“Samādhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“The mind itself—the seemingly solid, stable mind—dissolves into a stream of cittas flashing in and out of being moment by moment, coming from nowhere… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore.… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“One-pointedness of mind explains the fact that in any act of consciousness there is a central point of focus, towards which the entire objective… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“The choice of a spiritual path is closer to marriage: one wants a partner for life, one whose companionship will prove as trustworthy and… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as… — Rich Shapero Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
