Buddhist Quotes - Page 24

• What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.

  Ron Glass

  Christian, Views, Hook

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• Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Nations, Christian Nation

  "Obama’s 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics". Barack Obama's keynote at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference in Washington, D.C., www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2006.

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• When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  Uma Thurman

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Thinking

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Christian, Pagan, Guru

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• Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social change, or even in their struggle to transform their ego.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Meaningful, Mistake, Struggle

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• It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Mother, Perseverance, Kindness

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• I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I pray all the time — for self-control, for humility. There's a lot of gratitude in it. Just saying 'thank you' sometimes is better than asking for things.

  Katy Perry

  Christian, Gratitude, Humility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.

  Katy Perry

  Christian, Connections, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Uncles

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Noble

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• A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Real

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• You can only lose what you cling to.

  Gautama Buddha

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

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• Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Siddhartha, Social Justice

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Self Esteem

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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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• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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• Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Yoga, Winter

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• Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Believe, Doctrine

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• A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

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• Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Spirituality, Awake

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• Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Moments

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• Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Inspiring, Healing

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• Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Past, People

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• There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sweet, Heart, Fire

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• Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lamps, Looks, Height

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