Quote

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

Gautama Buddha

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gautama Buddha
Bhikkhu
Founding Figure
Philosopher
Religion Founder
Religious Leader
Writer
Siddhārtha Gautama
Shakyamuni
Buddha
Lord Buddha
Buddhadeva
Devarajalu
Gautam
Gotam
Khajit
Lokpradeep
Munish
Padmayani
Prabudha
Sakyasinha
Saugata
Shaakya
Shakyasinha
Siddarth
Tathagat
Tatharaj
Trigya
Trigyesh
Trikay
Fo
Sakya-muni
Mahatma
Think
Thoughts
Calm
Joyful
Thinking
Pure
Following
Follows
Like
Becoming
Leaving
Enlightened
Joy
Shapes
Buddhist
Siddhartha
Spiritual
Shadow
Enlightenment
Calming
Become
Meditation
Ease
Calmness
Mind
Leadership
Leaves
Shaped
Never
Positive
Buddhism
Uplifting

More quotes by Gautama Buddha

Image
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
Gautama Buddha
Image
Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Our life is shaped by our mind we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
Gautama Buddha
Image
The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
Gautama Buddha
Image
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
Gautama Buddha
Image
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
Gautama Buddha
Image
The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
Gautama Buddha
Image
You are all the Buddha.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Comparing oneself to others in such terms as Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I, he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
Gautama Buddha
Image
If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.
Gautama Buddha
Image
Nothing ever exists entirely alone everything is in relation to everythiong else.
Gautama Buddha
Image
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.
Gautama Buddha
Image
All conditioned things are impermanent - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
Gautama Buddha