1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you’re setting free is yourself.

If you don’t practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment.

Because of the Dharma, my mind was more free in prison than worldly people experience in the best of circumstances.

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

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Our minds perform magic all the time. (p. 212)

Aloneness seems to be the heart of discipline [...] You cannot develop yourself properly unless you give up your need for companionship. Once you give up your search for companionship, you can make friends with your loneliness. At that point, you become a genuine practitioner.

Consider this:1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD?And here's a bonus question:2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

Life is a series of awakenings.