Buddhists Quotes
56 quotes by 44 authors
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or…
— Eckhart Tolle
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We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much…
— Barack Obama
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In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants...
— Hélder Câmara
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Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even…
— Malcolm X
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The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view,…
— Robert Thurman
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We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and…
— Mother Teresa
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We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having…
— Michael Shermer
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History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
— Terence McKenna
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The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet…
— Monica Drake
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It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs,…
— Adyashanti
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It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes…
— Robin Williams
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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone…
— Rumi
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Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking…
— Aldous Huxley
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Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.
— Norodom Sihanouk
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Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call…
— Wayne Muller
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Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their…
— Jacob Needleman
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