Abandoned Quote by Eckhart Tolle

“It is often said that the Buddha’s teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon.…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed…

— Gautama Buddha

It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon.…

— Nhat Hanh

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

— Gautama Buddha

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple,…

— Peter Matthiessen

“However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must disembark once…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two…

— Diana Nyad

“I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.”

— Qiu Xiaolong

“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore.…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop…

— Guru Nanak

The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional, as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too,…

— Buddha

When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.

— Paolo Bacigalupi