Tibetan Quotes
46 quotes by 33 authors
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries…
— Fritjof Capra
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The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water…
— Al Gore
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Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit…
— Jaime King
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Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is…
— B. Alan Wallace
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It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious…
— Dalai Lama
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Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and…
— Stephen Baxter
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It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There…
— Dalai Lama
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you,…
— Ella Maillart
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People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I…
— Dalai Lama
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But…
— Dalai Lama
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Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies…
— Stephen LaBerge
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In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo…
— Joanna Lumley
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place.…
— Barbara Walters
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Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
— Richard Gere
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When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama] generates love and…
— Richard Gere
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Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
— Richard Gere
Who Wrote These Tibetan Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 46 Tibetan Quotes, led by these top contributors: