07-22-2008, 03:52 PM
Here are some Buddha quotes I love.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
He is able who thinks he is able.
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.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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.
Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
He is able who thinks he is able.
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.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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.
Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.