(Some people are afraid of being too happy or joyful. They think if they are something terrible will happen soon. This is known as cherophobia. Do not buy into this philosophy. Become a focus up philosopher and use these pages and posts to express and experience joy.)
Don’t worry, be happy! Not a Buddha quote per se. Good thinking for all time.
Our last post was the sayings and quotes of Jesus from the King James Bible. Today we are going to do the sayings and quotes of the Buddha. Buddha quotes in bold.
As I understand it the Buddha was Siddhartha a prince who left the palace of his father and went into the land to see the people and learn about human nature. He walked and discovered truths about humankind. He sat under the Bodhi tree and essenced out a philosophy that has become a huge religious philosophy for our planet. The following are his quotes. Please note: I have offered some info that may be added to or helped understanding of certain quotes. Also note: there may be more modern quotes inasmuch as the Buddha title is given to contemporary philosophers.
- Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like.
- We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods.
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
I thought it might be nice to see a couple of quotes in fanciful and picture form. Take these and use them, for sure. Buddha quotes are all over the internet and I suggest one looks for one that speaks to them. They can be printed and put on the front door so they can be seen as one starts out the day Possibly you’d want to print several and use them throughout your day.. Use a quote a day or for a week or more. Use it until you are living it. Remember to focus up into your win center and let the quote become part of the info you use when making decisions or life changes. Memorize quotes. The information will be there once committed to memory. .
More quotes attributed to the Buddha:
You, yourself as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Please note: speaking as one who knows this and sometimes forgets. Let us remember to love ourselves as we love one another.
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
“A jug fills drop by drop.” Please note: my family was staying with my mom’s parents in southwest Virginia, I like to say in the Blue Ridge mountains. I watched my grandmother put a dirty pot under the dripping faucet one night. I got up very early in the morning and went in to the kitchen Lo and behold the pot was filled with clean water. My young eyes looked at the clean water and I learned a lesson that day. Drop by drip the clean water had washed away the dirty water and helped clean the dirty pot. Amazing, yes? Is that what happens when we start thinking positive thoughts. Putting good thoughts in our consciousness. Does that clean out the soiled thinking and its surrounds? Think about it.
“Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” Please note: we don’t hear the word garland nowadays. A garland is, according to my man Merriam; a circular or spiral arrangement of intertwined objects like flowers. Suppose you had that spiral of good deeds always wrapped around your loving neck. …
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” Please note: My sweet wife was yelled at because our dog went to the bathroom on a neighbor’s rocks. Being a conscious dog owner she cleaned up after her dog. The neighbor knocked on the door, said, “Welcome to the neighborhood and yelled at her and berated her. Her final statement was that if she wasn’t careful the woman would go to management. My wife felt terrible for the rest of her evening. She had done the right thing according to life and nature. She had not followed all the strict protocols of the housing community which she did not know at the time. It made me wonder how a neighbor and potential ally against any sort of community infringement would lash out so vehemently. Why would one yell and scream at a brand new neighbor? Fear, it must be fear of something. Let us use this as a lesson to endeavor to be understanding and as the Buddha says, “Wise.”
Top 10 Buddha Quotes
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
- “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
- “It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
- “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
- “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
- “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
- “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
- “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Please note: share happiness at every instant and every opportunity. People may not acknowledge you or your happiness, but they can never decrease your happiness and they may catch the spirit.
- “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
- “What we think, we become. Please note: how true this is. Ernest Holmes coined the phrase, “Change your thinking change your life.”
Please note: These quotes I wrote the other day. Give it a go and write your own quotes. I am sure they can be good for you. Email them to me and I can include some of them. ernienylander@gmail.com
Today, tomorrow and forevermore integrity shall rule the day.
Open and honest communication is the only true communication
Pure joy is more than a surfboard
Peace is a blessing for persons of goodwill.
Laughter is as good a medicine as we’ve got.
Joy heals.
Our thoughts create our world
Thoughts are our reality. Our thinking is our life.
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