Buddhism quotations

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

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

- Thích Nh?t H?nh99

◆ If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

- Gautama Buddha99

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

- Gautama Buddha99

◆ You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.

- Pema Ch?dr?n99

◆ it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

- Daisaku Ikeda99

◆ Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

- Daisaku Ikeda99

◆ Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

- Bonnie Myotai Treace99

◆ Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

- Shunryu Suzuki99

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

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

- Gautama Buddha99

◆ It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.

- Anne Lamott99

◆ Attachment leads to suffering.

- Gautama Buddha99