Gautama Buddha
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.Collection: Truth
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.Collection: Powerful
Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painfulCollection: Resistance
One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the worldCollection: One Day
Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your angerCollection: Heart
Attachment is the source of all suffering.Collection: Grieving
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present momentCollection: Past
When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.Collection: Flower
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.Collection: Happiness
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.Collection: Happy
The trouble is you think you have time.Collection: Inspirational
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.Collection: Men
Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.Collection: Forgiveness
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.Collection: Blessing
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to itCollection: Monday
Flower and thorn are in the same stem.Collection: Flower
Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.Collection: Heart
Mind is everything. What we think, we become.Collection: Thinking
If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.Collection: Spiritual
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.Collection: Happiness
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.Collection: Sweet
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.Collection: Buddhist
Our life is a creation of our mind.Collection: Mind
Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.Collection: Gone
Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.Collection: Treating Others
The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.Collection: Enemy
There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.Collection: Summer
I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.Collection: Buddhist
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.Collection: Buddhist
Fill your mind with compassion.Collection: Buddhist
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.Collection: Wise
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.Collection: Buddhist
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.Collection: Buddhist
It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.Collection: Prosperity
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.Collection: Buddhist
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.Collection: Buddhist
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.Collection: Wisdom
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.Collection: Buddhist
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.Collection: Giving Up
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.Collection: Buddhist
Make of yourself a light.Collection: Light
Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.Collection: Karma
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.Collection: Buddhist
You are all the Buddha.Collection: Spiritual
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.Collection: Views
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.Collection: Strong
Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.Collection: Wise
Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.Collection: Expression
You are what you think about.Collection: Inspirational
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?Collection: Stars