Sentient Beings Quotes - Page 4

• I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.

  Andrew Linzey

  Philosophy, Animal, Rights

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• The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

  Takuan Soho

  Two

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness

  Ken Wilber

  Perfect, Facts, Depth

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

  Sam Harris

  Death, Loss, Genuine Concern

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• I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Years, Stills

  "Whedon Creates Space Cowboys in 'Firefly'". Post-Gazette.com, July 22, 2002.

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• Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Unity, Virtue

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• May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Insightful, Suffering, May

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• Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.

  Reb Anderson

  Way, Liberation

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• Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

  Kim Hee-jin

  Enlightenment, Enlightening, Delusion

  Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press

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• Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

  Nellie McKay

  Desire, Needs, Communicate

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Order, Space

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• Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Light, Choices

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• There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Pain, Believe, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When there is hallucination, there is the truth, by recognising it as hallucination. Where there is suffering, there is peace and bliss, by letting go and experiencing it for numberless suffering sentient beings. Always think of how others are kind and precious Treat them as you would like to be treated.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Buddhist, Thinking

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• He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Death, Lying, Men

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• All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Seeds

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• Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

  Antony Flew

  Fear, Suffering, Atheism

  Antony Flew (1984). “God, freedom, and immortality: a critical analysis”

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• We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Teacher

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• So long as space remains
  So long as sentient beings'
  Suffering remains
  I will remain
  In order to help,
  In order to serve.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Order, Space

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Dalai Lama's Big Book of Happiness: How to Live in Freedom, Compassion, and Love”, p.18, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Men, Long

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.433, Broadview Press

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• If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.

  Martin Gardner

  Writing, Science, Numbers

  Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan

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• When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Effort, Earth, Dimensions

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• It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Powerful, Compassion

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• Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.

  Diogenes

  Religious, Prayer, Thinking

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