Gautama Buddha
To understand everything is to forgive everything.Collection: Inspirational
As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.Collection: Wise
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.Collection: Inspirational
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.Collection: Change
He who is grateful doesn't suffer.Collection: Grateful
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.Collection: Inspirational
Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.Collection: Sorry
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.Collection: Kindness
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.Collection: Buddhist
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.Collection: Life
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.Collection: Buddhist
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.Collection: Confidence
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.Collection: Betrayal
Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.Collection: Men
He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.Collection: Loss
The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.Collection: Giving
The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.Collection: Buddhist
Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.Collection: Buddhist
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.Collection: Buddhist
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.Collection: Reality
Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.Collection: Solitude
Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.Collection: Teacher
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.Collection: Strong
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.Collection: Wise
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.Collection: Mother
But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.Collection: Book
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of itCollection: Healing
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.Collection: Wise
Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.Collection: Wise
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.Collection: Buddhist
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.Collection: Buddhist
Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.Collection: Character
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.Collection: Mind
You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.Collection: Giving Up
All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.Collection: Strive
Live every act fully, as if it were your last.Collection: Life
Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.Collection: Generosity
As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.Collection: Beautiful
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.Collection: Buddhist
Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.Collection: Spiritual
Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.Collection: Hate
The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.Collection: Night
Hayatın birliğini tecrübe eden kişi bütün canlıları kendinde, kendini de bütün canlılarda görür ve herşeye tarafsız bir gözle bakar. / He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.Collection: Eye
Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.Collection: Passion
To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.Collection: Pride
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.Collection: Buddhist
Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.Collection: Joy
Attachment leads to suffering.Collection: Buddhist