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.
By Buddha
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
By Jena Malone
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
By Buddha
Grant your blessing so that my mind may become one with the Dharma.
By Dagpo Lha-je Gampopa
you believe in — it's a sophisticated system of psychology that you use and practice and live.
By Unknown
NEVER GIVE UP
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too much energy in your country
Is spent developing the mind
Instead of the heart
Be compassionate
Not just to your friends
But to everyone
Be compassionate
Work for peace
In your heart and in the world
Work for peace
And I say again
Never give up
No matter what is going on around you
Never give up
By Dalai Lama XIV
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
By Unknown
Narcissism breeds contempt, and if contempt exists then compassion cannot flourish. By eradicating your narcissist ways you will enable yourself to learn compassion and lead a better more fulfilling life.
By Stuart Dawsons
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
By Buddha
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
By Dogen
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
By Dogen
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
By Dalai Lama XIV
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.
By Dalai Lama
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis
on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
By Swami Sivananda
Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup
By Dogen
The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.
By Dalai Lama XIV
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
By Buddha
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
By Thomas Kempis
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
By Pema Chodron
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
By Buddha
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
By Buddha
They are words of truth that can bring you to awakening
By Buddha
Be gentle first with yourself - if you wish to be gentle with others.
By Lama Yeshe
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
By Buddha
There is a danger when I speak in English that you will get misunderstanding, because I use the wrong word. Sometimes I confuse the words pessimism and optimism.
By Tenzin Gyatso
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
By Buddha
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
By Dalai Lama
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
By Buddha
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
By Buddha
There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.
By Tenzin Gyatso
If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
By Buddha
Understanding unity helps to solve humanity's biggest challenges. There is no such thing as an isolated problem. By injuring any part of the world's system, you injure yourself. There is no such thing as a win/lose situation.
Think of life on this planet in terms of systems and not detached elements. Broaden your field of vision and assimilate the knowledge you have. See that the environment does not belong to any single country to exploit and then disregard.
You cannot afford to think of your relationship with the earth as a one-night stand. There's no such thing as a free glass of milk. It's time to buy the cow.
By Za Rinpoche
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
By Buddha
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
By Lao Tzu
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
By Buddha
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
By Dalai Lama
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
By Thomas Kempis
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
By Dalai Lama
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
By Pema Chodron
Once a man came unto me and denounced me on account of my observing the Way and practicing great loving-kindness. But I kept silent and did not answer him. The denunciation ceased. Then I asked him. 'If you bring a present to your neighbour and he accepts it not; does the present come back to you?' He replied, 'It will.' I said, 'You denounce me now, but as I accept it not, you must take the wrong deed back on your own person. It is like echo succeeding sound, it is like shadow following object; you never escape the effect of your own evil deeds. Be therefore mindful, and cease from doing evil.
By Buddha
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
By Buddha
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
By Buddha
Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering, and the past will be revealed to you.
By Buddha
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Develop the mind of equilibrium.
You will always be getting praise and blame,
but do not let either affect the poise of the mind:
follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
By Sutta Nipata
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
By Swami Sivananda
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
By Kalu Rinpoche
You have to accept reality. This has helped me come closer to reality.
By Tenzin Gyatso
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
By Thomas Kempis
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.
By Dalai Lama XIV
There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaska -- waiting to turn you into ice cream. But whatever you call it -- hell or the suffering realms -- it is something that you enter by creating a world of neurotic fantasy and believing it to be real. It sounds simple, but that's exactly what happens.
By Lama Yeshe
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
By Dogen
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.
By Dalai Lama XIV
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
By Buddha
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
By Dalai Lama
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching
By Thomas Kempis
When an evil-man, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maticiously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-man is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
By Buddha
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
By Nagarjuna
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me.
By Thomas Kempis
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
By Dalai Lama XIV
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.
By Buddha
When someone asks you a question, answer him or her sincerely, and when you are not asked, do not force your teaching upon others.
By Jae Woong Kim
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
By Dalai Lama XIV
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another
By Tenzin Gyatso
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
"No", answered Buddha.
"Then are you a healer?"
"No", Buddha replied.
"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
"No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.
"I am awake", Buddha replied.
By Buddha
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three R's:
- Respect for self.
- Respect for others.
- Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone everyday.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
By Dalai Lama XIV
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
By Swami Sivananda
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
By Dalai Lama
In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.
By Dalai Lama
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
By Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
By Buddha
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
By Dalai Lama XIV
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
By OSHO
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
By Dogen
Keep yourself a stranger and pilgrim upon earth, to whom the affairs of this world are of no concern
By Unknown
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
By Buddha
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
By Dalai Lama XIV
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
By Lao-tzu
Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.
By Tenzin Gyatso
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
By Thomas Kempis
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
By Pema Chodron
If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills… Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.
By Tenzin Gyatso
We live very cloe together. So our prime purpose in this life is to help others.And if you can't help them, atleast don't hurt them.
By Dalai Lama XIV
I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.
By Dalai Lama XIV
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
By Tenzin Gyatso
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
By Buddha
When you can do nothing, what can you do?
By Zen Koan
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come
By Dalai Lama
Go at least once a year to a place you have never been before
By Dalai Lama
There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?
By Dalai Lama XIV
If we think only of ourselves, forget about other people, then our minds occupy very small area. Inside that small area, even tiny problem appears very big. But the moment you develop a sense of concern for others, you realize that, just like ourselves, they also want happiness; they also want satisfaction. When you have this sense of concern, your mind automatically widens. At this point, your own problems, even big problems, will not be so significant. The result? Big increase in peace of mind. So, if you think only of yourself, only your own happiness, the result is actually less happiness. You get more anxiety, more fear.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
By Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
By Buddha
'Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?'
Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.
By Dalai Lama XIV
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
By Thomas Kempis
Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.
By Tenzin Gyatso
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
By Swami Sivananda
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it
By Dalai Lama
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
By Buddha
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
By Dalai Lama
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live. - In the Gap Between Right and Wrong
By Pema Chodron
All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence
By Buddha
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself- if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself- it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice. [Shambhala Sun March 2006 ]
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them
By Dalai Lama XIV
Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
By Swami Sivananda
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
By Buddha
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
By Dalai Lama XIV
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts
By Swami Sivananda
Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must
By Swami Sivananda
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
By Buddha
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are - heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.
By Pema Chodron
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
By Lao Tzu
In the material world, there are limitations. We always want more, but in the spiritual world, just a short prayer and you're infinitely content.
By Tenzin Gyatso
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
By Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
By Swami Sivananda
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
By Dalai Lama XIV
One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.
By Dalai Lama XIV
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
By Buddha
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
By Buddha
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
By Buddha
