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Bhikkhu Inspirational Quotes (1294)

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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
Gautama Buddha
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When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
Shunryu Suzuki
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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
Gautama Buddha
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.
Bodhidharma
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The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.
Gautama Buddha
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We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.
Andy Puddicombe
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We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
Andy Puddicombe
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(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
Gautama Buddha
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
Gautama Buddha
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Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.
Nichiren
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Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
Gautama Buddha
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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.
Gautama Buddha
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
Bodhidharma
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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
Gautama Buddha
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Gautama Buddha
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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
Gautama Buddha
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If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.
Taisen Deshimaru
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However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
Gautama Buddha
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.
Gautama Buddha
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
Ajahn Chah
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You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
Matthieu Ricard
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He who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that someone who doesn't get apart from fire can't avoid being burn.
Shantideva
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For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
Matthieu Ricard
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If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.
Shunryu Suzuki
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