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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists. -- Jack Kornfield
As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are. -- Richard Gere
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. -- Martin Scorsese
We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths. -- Dalai Lama
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. -- Karen Armstrong
Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. -- John Green
Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists. -- Norodom Sihanouk
How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind. -- Vinessa Shaw
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists. -- Dogen
I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously. -- Tig Notaro
I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive. -- Luke Rhinehart
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists. -- Azim Premji
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me. -- Joan Baez
Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were rightâ??that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) -- Anne Lamott
Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path. -- Tenzin Palmo
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. -- Adyashanti
Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges. -- Jia Qinglin
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified. -- Terence McKenna
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air. -- Frederick Lenz
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life. -- Terence McKenna
We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass. -- George Patterson
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air. -- Frederick Lenz
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical. -- William Empson
Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration. -- Philip Greenspun
It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together. -- Robin Williams
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like. -- Quentin S. Crisp
We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own -- Barack Obama
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three. -- Jenny Offill
Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism. -- Rick Heller
It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom. -- Dalai Lama
DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace. -- Anne Rice
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby. -- Sara Maitland
This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community. -- Kenny Smith
The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we just know they're there like the DNA. We have no idea. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that's not the one. When you meet your "?soulmate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation. -- Monica Drake
Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California. -- Pico Iyer
Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever, right on, radicals and world changers, social peaceniks perhaps, with a Buddhist spiritual veneer. -- Surya Das
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it. -- Rumi
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves. -- Michael Shermer
You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process. -- Pearl Cleage
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it. -- Albert Ellis
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory. -- F. Sionil Jose
We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion. -- James K. A. Smith
Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms. -- Norm Phelps
The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched. That is the way we can hope to know God. -- Kent Nerburn
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God. -- Dennis Quaid
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person. -- Laurie Anderson
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. -- John Green
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. -- Swami Vivekananda
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit. -- Wayne Muller
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities. -- Alcee Hastings
Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is to consider about 50% data from the mind and 50% data from the soul. This is what Buddhists call, "the middle way." -- Neale Donald Walsch
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together. -- Natalie Angier
The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life ... have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you. -- Robert Thurman
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of proprietyâ??â??Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour. -- Aberjhani
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past. -- Hsing Yun
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana. -- Dalai Lama
Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't. -- Isaac Bonewits
I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God." -- Mother Teresa
The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, all with their own connections to the spiritual aspects of food and with lessons that we can learn from each other. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm. -- Gabrielle Roth
With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists. -- John Ankerberg
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. -- Alison Gopnik
the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. -- Jeanette Winterson

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