"Words are illusions." — Bodhidharma
"Words are illusions."
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Bodhidharma
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89 Quotes by Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma has 89 quotes on this site.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists…
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty.…
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain…
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what…
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and…
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Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality,…
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy…
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy…
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Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and…
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I…
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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