Quotes

I thought this might be an interesting place to post quotes that I enjoyed, for you guys to all read. Also, I thought it might be a great way to interact more as well. How you ask? Well leave a comment, and in that comment pop in your favorite quote or inspirational message. It’s that simple. We can all share words that inspire and drive us… Let me start off with a few.

“Just consider…Suppose we came to possess a very expensive object. The minute that thing comes into our possession our mind changes…’Now, where can I keep it? If I leave it there somebody might steal it’…We worry ourselves into a state, trying to find a place to keep it. And when did the mind change? It changed the minute we obtained that object — suffering arose right then. No matter where we leave that object we can’t relax, so we’re left with trouble. Whether sitting, walking, or lying down, we are lost in worry.”
-Ajahn Chah

“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.”
-Dalai Lama

“If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?”
-Shantideva

“When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere.
An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.”
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”
-Dogen

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
-Buddha

“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.”
- Buddha

“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
- Buddha

“Whenever the current is stronger than you are, that is the time to go with the flow. When you are able to be effective, that is the time to put forth effort.”
- Ajahn Brahm

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”
- James Joyce

“Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water; shit, it becomes shit water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem.”
- Seung Sahn

“Like a child who is abused by his or her parents– a child who screams for the familiar ‘comfort’ of those parents as they’re being hauled off by the police for beating him to a pulp– most of the time we would rather stay with the familiar than face the unknown, even when what’s familiar is our suffering.”
- Noah Levine (excerpt from Against The Stream)

““I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.”
-Colin Raye