Buddhism Quotes

The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.

The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.

Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.

We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.

Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse."

Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"

When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.

The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.

In deep meditation we see nothing but purity.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

When you go into the causal realms you become someone else. The light vibrates very quickly. You will see that you are a concurrence of light - taken shape and form in the body you now occupy.

When you admire others, you become one with them and the world loves you.

It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.

Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.