Gautama Buddha Quotes, Self Quotes, Giving Quotes

There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

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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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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

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He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

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(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

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Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.

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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

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Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

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Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

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Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

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Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

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There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

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Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

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Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

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