Buddhism Quotes

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words.

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.

If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

Life is a game in which happiness is the goal.

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

Without purity it's impossible to realize God.

We can always begin again.

Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.