Buddhism Quotes

1466 quotes by 146 authors

Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of… — Arnaud Desjardins
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace,… — Matthieu Ricard
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. — Matthieu Ricard
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to… — Jack Kornfield
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.… — Pema Chodron
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it… — Pema Chodron
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. — Jack Kornfield
You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way,… — Arnaud Desjardins
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a… — Jack Kornfield
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside. — Matthieu Ricard
We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. — Jack Kornfield
You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves. — Milarepa
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail… — Matthieu Ricard
We can always begin again. — Jack Kornfield
On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever. — Arnaud Desjardins
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. — Pema Chodron
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever. — Jack Kornfield
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie? — Sogyal Rinpoche

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