Buddhist Quote by Gautama Buddha Download Open image “By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.” — Gautama Buddha ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddhist Defilement Inspirational Mind Psychology Purification
The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a… — James Allen Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Senses are called spiritually purified when they are not involved in sense gratification. Senses require engagements, and when the senses are engaged totally in… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image