Mind Quote by Gautama Buddha

“Motivated by compassion for all sentient beings, Buddha Shakyamuni observed all these problems, and he reflected on the nature of his own existence. He…

— Dalai Lama XIV

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

— Dalai Lama

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what…

— Gautama Buddha

“As the Supreme Buddha once said, “The root of suffering is attachment.”

— Dominique Francon

“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in our lives…

— Simon Parke

“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

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

— Byron Katie

“Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever of you harbors ill will…

— Gautama Buddha

“I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned that only…

— Satya Nadella

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

— Edward Abbey

“Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that…

— Dalai Lama

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

— Bhikkhu Bodhi