Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Jesus Saves, Moses Invests, But only Buddha pays Dividends.

You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

The mind is everything; what you think, you become.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Do students of Zen Buddhism do Om-work?

How come people always flip and think they're Jesus? Why not Buddha? Particularly in America, where more people resemble Buddha than Jesus. 'Ah'm BUDDHA!' 'You're Bubba!' 'Ah'm Buddha now..All I gotta do is change 3 letters on ma belt...';"Bill Hicks

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.