Quotes About Path

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. [...] We, people hearts, seldom say much about these treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later we simple let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own path laid out for them — the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. p.125

The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always tales us somewhere.

When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.

We can use our personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not to armor our basic goodness, learning to appreciate what we have. Most of the time we don't do this. Rather than appreciate where we are, we continually struggle and nurture our dissatisfaction. It's like trying to get the flowers to grow by pouring cement on the garden.

if we understand how growth happens and are inspired to pursue the path of awakening, we develop an appetite for the things that challenge us. We become increasingly drawn to the places where learning and deepening can happen.

How do we work with our minds when we meet our match? Rather than indulge or reject our experience, we can somehow let the energy of the emotion, the quality of what we're feeling, pierce us to the heart. This is easier said than done, but it's a noble way to live. It's definitely the path of compassion—the path of cultivating human bravery and kindheartedness.

The Buddha taught that all beings have the potential to wake up completely, and that all of us will eventually get there. He and many other wise people in this world have given us tools for taking whatever occurs in our lives and using it to cultivate our basic goodness and become more and more able to be there for others. Whatever the future brings—welcome or unwelcome—we can use on our path of awakening. To me, this attitude is the best kind of optimism.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether has to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.

To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

The path of the bodhisattva-warrior WHEREVER we are, we can train as a warrior. The practices of meditation, loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our tools. With the help of these practices, we can uncover the soft spot of bodhichitta, the tenderness of the awakened heart.

When something hurts in life, we don't usually think of it as our path or as the source of wisdom. In fact, we think that the reason we're on the path is to get rid of this painful feeling.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.