Buddhism Quote by Robyn Davidson

The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in…

— Diana L. Eck

To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic…

— Paul Shepard

“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

People like Jesus Christ, the Buddha, and other walking masters who have moved through the earth have demonstrated that understanding that they have no…

— Neale Donald Walsch

We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to…

— Raimon Panikkar

Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom…

— William Mountford

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful…

— Huston Smith

“It does not matter whether one is a Buddhist like me, or a Christian like the Archbishop, or any other religion, or no religion…

— Dalai Lama XIV

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state…

— Joseph Campbell

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others…

— Swami Vivekananda