Gautama Buddha Quotes
May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
Quotes to Explore
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
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From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.
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May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
