| |  | | | | | | | | | | | Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth. | | Daisaku Ikeda | | | Do not think of how big the universe is, it will merely hurt your head. | | Buddha | | | On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots | | Buddha | | | There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster | | H. H. Munro | | | You only lose what you cling to. | | Buddha | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 5 of 5 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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