We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Quotations
Gautama Buddha
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
Develop a mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect poise of mind: follow calmness, the absence of pride.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
The Eightfold Path: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship… To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Be determined. The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree.
