Gautama Buddha — Spiritual Quotes

182 quotes · Spiritual Teacher

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Gautama Buddha Quotes

All Philosophical Spiritual Grateful Wise Calm 182 quotes · page 7 of 16

Gautama Buddha

Spiritual Teacher

Spiritual

“Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.”

Feelings Joy Inner Peace

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Gautama Buddha

Spiritual Teacher

Spiritual

“Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.”

Way Pain Meditation

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Spiritual

“Attachment leads to suffering.”

Suffering Buddhist Attachment

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Spiritual

“In every trial Let understanding fight for you.”

Fighting Understanding

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Spiritual

“To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.”

Meat Eating

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Spiritual

“If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.”

Heart Running Ocean

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Spiritual

“In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.”

Strong Buddhism Buddhist

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Spiritual

“Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.”

Body Buddhist Contemplating

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Spiritual

“There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.”

Home Self Esteem Jewels

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Spiritual

“I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.”

Self Reality Buddhist

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Spiritual

“To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.”

Past Spiritual Practice

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Spiritual

“How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.”

Long Night Meditation

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