Spiritual Quotes

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

Buddha

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

Buddha

"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."

Saint Thomas Aquinas

"The good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and a slave not of just one man but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices."

Saint Augustine, The City of God

Hai-ya, hai-ya—hai-ya, hai-ya—
All my song is lost and gone.
Sad at heart is the bluebird,
All my song is lost and gone,
Woe is me, alas! Alas!
All my song is lost and gone.

Pima Indian song

"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."

Buddha

To say that the mind, or mental phenomena, or mental consciousness, constitute the self, is an unfounded assertion. For an arising and passing away is seen there; and seeing the arising and passing away of these things, one would come to the conclusion that one’s self arises and passes away.
It would be better for the neophyte to regard the body, formed from material phenomena, as the self, rather than the mind. For it is evident that the body may last for a year or two, or for three, four, five or ten years, or even for a hundred years and more; but that which is called thought, or mind, or consciousness, arises continuously during day and night as one thing, and passes away as another.
Therefore, whatsoever there is of material phenomena, of sensation and feeling, of perceptions, of mentation, of consciousness, whether past, present or future, this one should understand: “This does not belong to me; this I am not; this is not my self”.

Buddha

"Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak, say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not!"

(Isaiah 35: 3-4).

Clay Tablets

So when it comes to doing right and being courageous, there is nothing to go on but a sense of shame. If you do wrong, unconcerned that people will say it is wrong, or if you are cowardly without caring that people will laugh at you for spinelessness, there is nothing anyone can teach you.
- From 'Code of the Samurai', translated by Thomas Cleary

"Agnosticism is an attitude of spinelessness."

Anonymous.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him
now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
9)for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:8,9

People often ask me: "If my dying relative or friend is a practicing Christian and I am a Buddhist, is there any conflict?" How could there be? I tell them: You are invoking the truth, and Christ and Buddha are both compassionate manifestations of truth, appearing in different ways to help beings.
- From The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche