Buddhism Quotes - Page 3

• A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Unique

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Issues, Suffering

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• True love is born from understanding.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love Is, Understanding, Born

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• Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Woods, Heal

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• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Buddhist, Creativity, Ideas

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doubt, Literature, Creeds

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Abundance

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• Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Suffering

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• Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Peace, Thinking

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

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• The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

  Albert Einstein

  Needs, Cosmic, Refuse

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• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Buddhist, Compassion

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

  Jet Li

  Past, Years, Retreat

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• The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Buddhist, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

  Gary Snyder

  Yoga, Positivity, Mind

  Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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