1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

Just as you can hide a tall building behind a tiny finger, you're hiding God behind yourself.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

I am a body-mind and there is an emptiness inside me : This is upside down perception. I am emptiness and there is body-mind outside me : This is right perception. The whole spiritual journey is just to right your perception. It sounds simple but it's as difficult as an upside down tortoise trying to right itself.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.