Brad Warner Quotes

I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he's gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.

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• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Religion
  • River

• A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

  

  Dogen
  • Great
  • Running
  • Water

• I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Great
  • Book
  • Atheist

• The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Buddha

• Your nature is the Buddha.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Nature
  • Buddha

• I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Space

• I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

  

  Buddha
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Powerful

• The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • World
  • God
  • Jesus

• If you look back through history, you'll see that God, in any form - Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed - has always wanted prosperity for everyone. There was a recognition of the need to integrate our material and spiritual lives. But that message was distorted by various leaders with their own agendas.

  

  Paul Zane Pilzer
  • God
  • History
  • Jesus

• The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

  

  Pema Chodron
  • Pretty
  • Control
  • Scary

• The attentive reader may have noticed that the core period of Jasper's Axial age—the lifetimes of Pythagoras, Confucius, and the Buddha—corresponds almost exactly to the period in which coinage was invented.

  

  David Graeber
  • May
  • Age
  • Period

• Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Different
  • Girl

• I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Artist
  • Term
  • My Own

• I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Game

• Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Writing
  • Earth
  • Light

• Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?

  

  Alexander Masters
  • Sense
  • Companionship
  • Homelessness

• Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • True
  • Gay
  • Color

• I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he's gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Buddha
  • Pops
  • Mediator