Gautama Buddha
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.Collection: Sorrow
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.Collection: Change
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.Collection: Mind
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.Collection: Evil
"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.Collection: Sorrow
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.Collection: Buddhist
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.Collection: Happiness
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.Collection: Buddhist
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.Collection: Buddhist
Live joyfully, without desire.Collection: Desire
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.Collection: Happiness
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the nextCollection: Men
The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth will Find It. The Truth is Hidden to the Blind, but he who has the Mental Eye Sees the Truth.Collection: Eye
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.Collection: Omission
Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.Collection: Karma
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.Collection: Shining
I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.Collection: Words Of Wisdom
The mind contains all possibilities.Collection: Imagination
Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.Collection: Beautiful
There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heartCollection: Heart
If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.Collection: Inspirational
No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.Collection: Trust
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.Collection: Religious
Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.Collection: Forever
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.Collection: Letting Go
Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.Collection: Buddhist
Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.Collection: Compassion
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.Collection: Buddhist
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.Collection: Spiritual
If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.Collection: Inspirational
I am always at the beginning.Collection: Buddhist
What you have become is the result of what you have thoughtCollection: Results
The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.Collection: Giving
In every trial Let understanding fight for you.Collection: Buddhist
The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.Collection: Profound
Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.Collection: Wise
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.Collection: Buddhist
If a string has one end, it has another.Collection: Ends
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.Collection: Suffering
"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.Collection: Sorrow
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.Collection: Thinking
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.Collection: Buddhism
Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.Collection: Faith
When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.Collection: Wise
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.Collection: Spring
The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worseCollection: Mind
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and againCollection: Strong
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.Collection: Wise