Nirvana Quotes

200 quotes by 105 authors

When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of… — E.W. Jackson
I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends. — Audrina Patridge
When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life. — Joel Madden
I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana… — Butch Vig
Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If… — Rajneesh
Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a deep harmony with… — Rajneesh
When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came… — Krist Novoselic
For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists… — Gautama Buddha
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is… — Gautama Buddha
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should… — Gautama Buddha
There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close… — Gautama Buddha
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. — Gautama Buddha
I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words… — Gautama Buddha
Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana — Gautama Buddha
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning… — Gautama Buddha
There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is… — Gautama Buddha
Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you… — Gautama Buddha
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt — Gautama Buddha
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One… — Gautama Buddha

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