Nirvana Quotes

200 quotes by 105 authors

I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so… — Malin Akerman
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. — Kobe Bryant
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world,… — Kurt Cobain
The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana. — Bassui Tokusho
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature. — Sogyal Rinpoche
In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate nirvana or ultimate… — Tony Robbins
Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the… — Rajneesh
How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term… — Pele
That is Buddha`s meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from all… — Rajneesh
Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you… — Rajneesh
Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God.… — Rajneesh
The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker for heaven, it… — Rajneesh
Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to… — Rajneesh
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The… — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught… — Hermann Hesse
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the… — Karen Armstrong
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried. — Chogyam Trungpa
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts… — Aldous Huxley

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