Buddhist Quotes

822 quotes by 218 authors

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I… — Dean Cain
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity… — Morris West
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then… — Patrick Duffy
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed… — Jay Griffiths
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. — Karen Armstrong
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse… — Tom Hardy
You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all.… — Rick Warren
I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our… — Tara Brach
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom… — Tara Brach
What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never… — Donna Farhi
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate… — Ajahn Sumedho
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong. — Bodo Balsys
Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand. — Bodo Balsys
The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from… — Bodo Balsys
The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion. — Dennis Merzel
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart! — Yogaswami
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon… — Frederick Lenz
Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in… — Frederick Lenz

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