Buddha Quotes - Page 5

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

I am filling my life with an abundance of love every day and in every way so that I can give it away.

Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life.

In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don’t believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don’t know the ultimate reality.

To create a positive and beautiful life, you have to focus on the positive side of life.

Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

Not everyone is violent in a violence infected country or society. In those countries and societies many parents unknowingly teach their children hatred and violence.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Show your infectious smile and infect everyone with joy.

Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

If we ask a random orthodox religious person, what is the best religion, he or she would proudly claim his or her own religion to be the best. A Christian would say Christianity is the best, a Muslim would say Islam is the best, a Jewish would say Judaism is the best and a Hindu would say Hinduism is the best. It takes a lot of mental exercise to get rid of such biases.

When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers.

Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself.

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

I may not believe in magic, but I know words have the magical power to change a person or a life in a second.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

You never help anyone without helping yourself. You never pick up anyone without making yourself stronger.

Be judgmental to yourself, but be kind and non-judgmental to others.

Smile like the sun and radiate your light and make this world bright.

Who I am? Am I thinking?

Your life is your dream dreamt by your heart.

Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.”“You mean God?” Kohler demanded.“God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point—call it whatever you like—the result is the same. Science and religion support the same truth—pure energy is the father of creation.

In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better.

Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.

A friend is a mirror. You unknowingly see yourself in him or her.

Don’t forget to wonder and appreciate yourself.

Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

I may not give you as much love as you want, but I will give you as much as I have.

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

Be good to attract good.

Life is a journey. If you can’t walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations.

Two thousand and five hundred years ago Lord Buddha announced, ‘By self- exertion we will achieve ‘Nirvana’, and then Hinduism announced, ‘By self-mortification and self-exertion we shall achieve the supreme knowledge. But this supreme knowledge means knowledge of oneness. No, not the knowledge of oneness, it is rather oneness only and that is achieved spontaneously.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have...Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

Let us express our deepest gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives to give us freedom. Wish you all a very joyful Independence Day!

Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind’s eye and touch it through my heart.

Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop."You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

Abundance in life comes from generosity.

Any society that justifies violence against any human being for any reason will be a violent society. It will ultimately infect and affect the whole society. Everyone will suffer.

Whatever happens in life happens to make you stronger. So fear not, accept it as a gift from the universe. Use the event to capture the essence of this journey we call life.

Education is the fertilizer which helps you to grow and bloom to beautify this world.

Our thoughts and imaginations are much more powerful than our feelings or actions.

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Siddhartha embarked on a mission that human civilization has been on since its inception – How to overcome pain and suffering in human life. Siddhartha was perhaps the first scientist on the planet who wanted to address pain and suffering at their roots. While every other thinker from every other religious traditions speculated on the goals of life and afterlife, such speculative queries were nonsensical for Siddhartha for in the mold of a true scientist, he saw no evidential basis for them. Siddhartha didn’t even query what is pain, and where does it come from. He directed his query on how can pain and suffering be removed, an enquiry no speculative philosopher had undertaken before.

True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.

When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who I consider to be one of the best spiritual therapists in the world – said that I was going to get enlightened, that I would ”disappear into the silence”. I did not really understand what he meant then, and it was totally absurd for me when other course participants congratulated me afterwards. The thought that I was going to be enlightened was totally absurd for me. For me enlightenment was something that happened to special and chosen persons like Osho, Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu and Krishnamurti. I did not feel either special or chosen. I did not feel worthy of being enlightened.

The beauty of having faith, is that no matter what the time of day, whether it be day or night I know that someone is always there with me to give me comfort.It doesn't matter whether it is Buddha, God or Allah because whoever it is, is special to each of us. And that is the beauty of having faith.

In the morning, smile like the morning sun and give the best gift of a smile filled with the warmth of love.

A hug everyday mixed with just four sweet letters makes life joyful.

Without peace, life loses its prime purpose.

Magical morning lights, dreamy sky,Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes

With your spare time and money, make a difference for those who can’t afford a life.