1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.

Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.

It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.

You want to taste all these experiences. And the ego makes it possible. Don’t curse the ego. So many scriptures curse the ego self. Instead, regard your life as about choices, experiences and desire and that you are already liberated. Don’t be afraid of desire. It is why you’re here: to taste, live. It’s just an ‘agreement’ you all made when you took on an ego. You splintered off from the whole. ~ Kuan Yin

I will never see you again with my eyes, but I will see you in my heart."You Have to Get Lost before You Can Be Found

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaska—waiting to turn you into ice cream. But whatever you call it—hell or the suffering realms—it is something that you enter by creating a world of neurotic fantasy and believing it to be real. It sounds simple, but that's exactly what happens.

Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship will fall apart if the partners are not respectful of each other's differences. <...> Separateness and connection make each other possible; they are not mutually exclusive.