Gautama Buddha Quotes About Inspiration
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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.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is
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Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs
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Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
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Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views
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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established
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You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
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You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. 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.
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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates
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The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
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Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
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When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
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Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
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Through one all are known, through one all are also seen
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Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
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As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
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When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause
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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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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts
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Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
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The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
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