Spiritual Quotes By Famous Personalities
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A basic concept in
A basic concept in Zen is that ‘softness triumphs over hardness.’ This is not necessarily true in the bedroom. -Roshi So
A beautiful woman who
A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water. -Zen Proverb
A bit of fragrance
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. -Chinese Proverb
A clever mind is
A clever mind is not a heart. -Taoist Proverb
A conservative believes nothing
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time. -Lynwood L. Giacomini
A crust eaten in
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. -Aesop
A donkey carrying a
A donkey carrying a pile of holy books is still a donkey. -Zen Proverb
A donkey with a
A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey.
A flower dies even
A flower dies even though we love it. A weed grows even though we do not love it. -Zen Proverb
A flower falls even
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. -Dogen Zenji
A gem cannot be
A gem cannot be perfected without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb
A generous heart kind
A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion, are the things which renew humanity. – Buddha
A generous heart kind
A generous heart, kind speech, and compassion are the things which renew humanity. – Gautama Siddhartha
A great deal of
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
A haiku is the
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment in which we see into the life of things. – R.H. Blyth
A hallucination is a
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. – Bertrand Russell
A heavy snowfall disappears
A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. What silence! – Zen Proverb
A loving atmosphere in
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. – Dalai Lama
A madman and an
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t. – Ajahn Chah
A man is but
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. – Mohandas Gandhi
A man will give
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. – John Cleese
A mind all logic
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. – Rabindranath Tagore
A mind to search
A mind to search elsewhere
For the Buddha,
Is foolishness
In the very center of foolishness – Ikkyus doka – Zen
A painting of rice
A painting of rice cake does not satisfy hunger. – Zen Proverb
A perfect faith would
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear – George MacDonald
A person who says
A person who says, I’m enlightened probably isn’t. – Baba Ram Dass
A real act of
A real act of honesty is not enough to be honored by everyone, but being witnessed by you and God alone.
A scholar who cherishes
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. -Tao Te Ching
A smile is an
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. – Charles Gordy
A wild beast may
A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – Zen Proverb
A wise man recognizing
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. – Tao
A word is no
A word is no more than a means to an end. It’s an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself. – Eckhart Tolle
Abandon learning and you
Abandon learning, and you will be free from trouble and distress. – Lao Tzu
Accept that your life
Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding. – Dainin Katagiri
Act non action undertake
Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless. – Lao Tzu
Action should culminate in
Action should culminate in wisdom. – Bhagavad Gita
After a heavy snowfall
After a heavy snowfall the more rigid branches of the pine break under the weight of the snow. – Taoist Proverb
After a heavy snowfall
After a heavy snowfall the more supple willow branches bend, thus allowing the snow to fall to the ground. – Taoist Proverb
After enlightenment the laundry
After enlightenment, the laundry. – Zen Proverb
After happiness comes suffering
After happiness comes suffering. After suffering arises happiness. For beings happiness & suffering revolve like a wheel. – Nagarjuna
After the mind essence
After the mind essence has been pointed out and one has recognized it, one must practice and train. – Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
Alas The world is
Alas! The world is full of enormous lights & mysteries, and the man shuts them from himself with one small hand. – Zen Proverb
All beings are Buddha
All beings are Buddha. All beings are the truth, just as they are. – Robert Aitken
All beings are the
All beings are the truth just as they are. – Zen Proverb
All Buddhas preach emptiness
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because if a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas. – Bodhidharma
All composite things decay
All composite things decay; work out your salvation with diligence. – The Buddha
All conditioned things are
All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence. – The Buddha’s last words
All difficult things have
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. – Taoist Proverb
All evil done clings
All evil done clings to the body. – Zen Proverb
All happy families resemble
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
All is empty yet
All is empty yet appears, appears yet is empty. – Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
All know that the
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. – Kabir
All know the Way
All know the Way, but few actually walk it. – Bodhidharma
All people on the
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. – Rumi
All states of consciousness
All states of consciousness are available right now. – Thaddeus Golas
All that is valuable
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. – Einstein
All that we know
All that we know is nothing…unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. – D.H. Lawrence
All the things that
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. – Eckhart Tolle
All true artists whether
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. – Eckhart Tolle
All truth is very
All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples’ fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. – Brian Perkins
All we see or
All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allen Poe
All wisdom comes out
All wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one. – Paracelsus
All wrong doing arises
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? – Zen Proverb
Alternate between the solitary
Alternate between the solitary and the social. Whether alone or with others, keep serenity. – Deng Ming-Dao
Although gold dust is
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. – Hsi-Tang
Although the world is
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller
Although you see the
Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it. -Rumi
Always keep a smiling
Always keep a smiling face and a loving mind, and speak truthfully without malice. -Atisha
An ant on the
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. -Zen Proverb
An emotion is the
An emotion is the body’s reaction to your mind. -Eckhart Tolle
And the end of
And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot
And when they played
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. -Dr. Seuss
And you When will
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? -Rumi
Angels can fly because
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. -G.K. Chesterton
Anger so clouds the
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. -Cato the Elder