Quotes from Buddha

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

I am the miracle.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

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.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

The greatest prayer is patience

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.