Earth Quote by Frederick Franck

“As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death. The…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Suffering led the Buddha to enlightenment, and it may cause us, against our will, to grow in compassion, awareness, and possibly eventually peace.”

— Huston Smith

Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like…

— Shoitsu Omatsu

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

— Bodhidharma

“To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good…

— Dōgen

“Buddha taught that we should not merely not be evil, but that we should be positively good.”

— Henry Steel Olcott

“The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding.”

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?”

— Manil Suri

“retreat, with nothing to look forward to, nowhere to be, nothing to do, we are forced to confront the “wound of existence” head-on, to…

— Dan Harris

“For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that we can…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi