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No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.
The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.
As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.
As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.
If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.
Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.
Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.
I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.
'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.
It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.