Quotations on Buddhism 18 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 18
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. - Gilbert K. Chesterton (Keywords: Buddhism, Doubt) Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. - Sandra Cisneros (Keywords: Life, People, Buddhism, Buddhist, Events, World) When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. - Richard Gere (Keywords: Buddhism, Connection, Karma, Past) A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. - Stanislav Grof (Keywords: Death, Time, Opportunity, Buddhism, Rebirth, Spiritual) One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values. - Herbie Hancock (Keywords: Values, Vision, Buddhism, Support) Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. - Bell Hooks (Keywords: Experience, Wisdom, Islam, Buddhism, First, Spiritual, Teachers, World) I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. - Jet Li (Keywords: Time, Buddhism, English, Learning, Today) I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. - Jet Li (Keywords: Movies, Buddhism, Past, Years) Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. - Thurston Moore (Keywords: Religion, Buddhism, Americans, Philosophy, Religious) The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them. - Jamie Muir (Keywords: Music, Management, Buddhism, Interest, Months) A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. - William Winwood Reade (Keywords: Religion, Success, Morality, Buddhism, Mankind, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Spirit) Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up. - Kenneth Rexroth (Keywords: Life, Temple, Buddhism, Buddhist, Ceremony) There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years. - Matthew Sweet (Keywords: Life, Buddhism, First, Now, Value, Years, Zen) Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. - David Sylvian (Keywords: Belief, Discipline, Buddhism, Zen) Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them. - Uma Thurman (Keywords: Buddhism, Effect, World) In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious. - Tina Turner (Keywords: Buddhism, Words) All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common. - Barbara Walters (Keywords: Buddhism, End, Heaven) Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. - Alan Watts (Keywords: Idea, Buddhism, Being, Law)
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