Abandoned Quote by Gautama Buddha

“The realization of Nibbāna comes with the blossoming of wisdom and brings perfect peace, untarnished happiness, and the stilling of the mind’s compulsive drives.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

— Anonymous

Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously,…

— Aldous Huxley

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but…

— Gautama Buddha

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

— Howard G. Hendricks

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind…

— Gautama Buddha

A habit does not a monk make.

— Francois Rabelais

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation…

— Umberto Eco

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession,…

— Gautama Buddha

“Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers”

— Shri Radhe Maa

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. —Confucius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know…

— Max Tegmark