Gautama Buddha Quotes
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From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
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However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.
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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
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We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.
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Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
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Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
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There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
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He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.
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Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
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May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
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Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.
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Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
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Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.
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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.
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Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
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You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.
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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
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All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas.