The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. @ -Buddha
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. @ -Buddha
The thoughts in your mind affect your outer world, think your best feeling thoughts as much as you can.
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path. @ -Buddha
What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. @ -Buddha
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. @ -Buddha
Give, even if you only have a little. @ -Buddha
True love is born from understanding. @ -Buddha
Stress exists only in your mind. Peace exists only in the acceptance of the present moment. @ -Maxime Lagacé
The root of suffering is attachment. @ -Buddha
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. @ -Buddha
Nothing is forever except change. @ -Buddha
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. @ -Buddha
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. @ -Buddha
There is no path to peace; peace is the path. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Attachment leads to suffering. @ -Buddha
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. @ -Buddha
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. @ -Dalai Lama
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. @ -Buddha
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. @ -Eckhart Tolle
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. @ -Buddha
What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now. @ -Buddha
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind. @ -Buddha
If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind. @ -Buddha
Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck. @ -Buddha
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. @ -Buddha
If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. @ -Buddha
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. @ -Buddha
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. @ -Dalai Lama
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. @ -Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world. @ -Buddha
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
A disciplined mind brings happiness. @ -Buddha
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. @ -Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; yet you are the one who gets burned. @ -Buddha
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle. @ -Buddha
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
He is able who thinks he is able. @ -Buddha
The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser. @ -Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. @ -Buddha
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
If you can be continuously aware of each thought as it rises, and if you can be so indifferent to it that it doesn't sprout or flourish, you are well on the way to escaping from the entanglements of mind. @ -Annamalai Swami
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. @ -Buddha
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. @ -Lao Tzu
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. @ -Buddha
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. @ -Dalai Lama
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. @ -Buddha
When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself. @ -Buddha
Live every act fully, as if it were your last. @ -Buddha
Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. @ -Buddha
Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don't give up. @ -Buddha
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. @ -Buddha
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win. @ -Buddha
Feel your way into a calming frame of mind by using soothing thoughts to quiet yourself.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. @ -Buddha
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. @ -Buddha
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. @ -Buddha
Zen is not some special state, it is our normal condition, silent, peaceful, awake, without agitation. @ -Taisen Deshimaru
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. @ -Buddha
He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest. @ -Buddha
Radiate boundless love towards the entire world. @ -Buddha
People with opinions just go around bothering each other. @ -Buddha
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. @ -Buddha
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. @ -Surya Das
All things are ready, if our mind be so. @ -William Shakespeare
Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception. @ -Buddha
Calmness is the lake of mind, thankfulness is the lake of heart.
Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom. @ -Buddha
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. @ -Buddha
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself. @ -Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. @ -Buddha
The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. @ -Buddha
Meditation can be just the healing salve your soul needs, might as well try it.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? @ -Buddha
Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened. @ -Buddha
The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men. @ -Buddha
If every 8-year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation. @ -Dalai Lama
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. @ -Buddha
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. @ -Gautama Buddha
Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole. @ -Buddha
Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes. @ -Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. @ -Buddha
I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.
Be conscious of yourself as consciousness alone, watch all the thoughts come and go. Come to the conclusion, by direct experience, that you are really consciousness itself, not its ephemeral contents. @ -Annamalai Swami
They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed. @ -Buddha
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. @ -Buddha
Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. @ -Buddha
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. @ -Buddha
Listen to the birds, listen to the wind, tap into the joyous energy found in nature and ride the waves of abundance.
In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength. @ -Buddha
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better, it's about befriending who we are. @ -Pema Chödrön
Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened. @ -Buddha
Mental problems feed on the attention that you give them. The more you worry about them, the stronger they become. If you ignore them, they lose their power and finally vanish. @ -Annamalai Swami
When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious! @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. @ -Buddha
There will be calmness, tranquillity when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. @ -Bruce Lee
You don't need any methods to get rid of the wrong ideas you have about yourself. All you have to do is stop believing them. The best way to do this is to replace them with ideas that more accurately reflect the real state of affairs. @ -Annamalai Swami
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. @ -John Muir
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting. @ -Buddha
There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires. @ -Buddha
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. @ -Buddha
The enlightened one, intent on jhana, should find delight in the forest, should practice jhana at the foot of a tree, attaining his own satisfaction. @ -Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. @ -Buddha
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation. @ -Buddha
Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours. @ -Buddha
The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things. @ -Thich Thien An
A jug fills drop by drop.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. @ -Buddha
Don't accept delivery of all the wrong ideas that keep coming to you. ... Rest quietly in the feeling of "I am", which is consciousness, and cultivate the attitude that all thoughts, all perceptions, are "not me". @ -Annamalai Swami
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. @ -Buddha
As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill. @ -Buddha
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. @ -Buddha
Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance. @ -Seng-chao
If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us? Buddha @ -Buddha
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. @ -Buddha
It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse. @ -Buddha
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. @ -Buddha
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing. @ -Buddha
Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure. @ -Buddha
When you know that everything that is happening is only appearing on the screen of consciousness, and that you yourself are the screen on which it all appears, nothing can touch you, harm you or make you afraid. @ -Annamalai Swami
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. @ -Buddha
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. @ -Buddha
All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind. @ -Buddha
One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond. @ -Buddha
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. @ -Benjamin Franklin
She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair. @ -Buddha
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else. @ -Buddha
I am the miracle. @ -Buddha
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. @ -Buddha
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world. @ -Buddha
See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment for states of becoming. @ -Buddha
If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow. @ -Buddha
You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and your feet, of your words and your thoughts. @ -Buddha
If you can resist the impulse to claim each and every thought as your own, you will come to a startling conclusion: you will discover that you are the consciousness in which the thoughts appear and disappear. @ -Annamalai Swami
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. @ -Buddha
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. @ -Natalie Goldberg
Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering. @ -Buddha
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. @ -Buddha
If you pay attention to thoughts and feelings while you meditate and try to use them to evaluate how well or how badly you are meditating, you will never reach the ultimate silence. Instead you will just get bogged down in mental concepts. @ -Annamalai Swami
Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha. @ -James Patterson
Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. @ -Buddha
May all that have life be delivered from suffering. @ -Buddha
As a mother would protect her only child with her life... cultivate a boundless love towards all beings. @ -Buddha
Do not turn away what is given you, nor reach out for what is given to others, lest you disturb your quietness. @ -Buddha
Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; let therefore mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after passionlessness for himself. @ -Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. @ -Buddha
Born out of concern for all beings. @ -Buddha
Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet. @ -Buddha
Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas. @ -Buddha
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across? @ -Buddha
Reduce the speed and intensity to reduce stress. A flower blooms slowly, in calmness, and in serenity. @ -Debasish Mridha
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. @ -Buddha
One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble. @ -Buddha
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. @ -Buddha
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? @ -Buddha
You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way. @ -Buddha
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law. @ -Buddha
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate. @ -Alan Watts
Whatever has the nature of arising, has the nature of ceasing. @ -Buddha
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy. @ -Buddha
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck. @ -Buddha
I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed. @ -Buddha
Meditation must be continuous. The current of meditation must be present in all your activities. @ -Annamalai Swami
Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment. @ -Buddha
It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice. @ -Buddha
The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range. @ -Buddha
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. @ -Buddha
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. @ -Buddha
Meditate... do not delay, lest you later regret it. @ -Buddha
The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false. @ -Buddha
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. @ -Buddha
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed. @ -Buddha
Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think. @ -Buddha
In our practice, we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill. @ -Buddha
Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts! @ -Buddha
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them. @ -Buddha
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good. @ -Buddha
Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course. @ -Buddha
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. @ -Nagarjuna
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin. @ -Buddha
Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words. @ -Buddha
Those attached to the notion 'I am' and to views roam the world offending people. @ -Buddha
In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast. @ -Buddha
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. @ -Buddha
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by loving kindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it. @ -Buddha
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. @ -Buddha
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. @ -Nikola Tesla
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. @ -Buddha
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. @ -Buddha
The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality... is the highest act of wisdom. @ -Teitaro Suzuki
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. @ -Alan Watts
May all beings have happy minds. @ -Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. @ -Buddha
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. @ -Buddha
The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity. @ -Buddha
Some do not understand that we must die, but those who do realize this settle their quarrels. @ -Buddha
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. @ -Buddha
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing. @ -Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. @ -Buddha
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone. @ -Buddha
Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another. @ -Buddha
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. @ -Buddha
