Buddhism Quotes

1466 Buddhism quotes by 146 unique authors

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
On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more! — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard
Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts. — Jack Kornfield
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we… — Pema Chodron
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is… — Matthieu Ricard
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in… — Matthieu Ricard
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,… — Jack Kornfield
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is.… — Jack Kornfield
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.… — Jack Kornfield

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