Buddha Heart Quotes

#1. To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. - BUDDHA

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#3. I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit's flames.

Rod Stryker

#4. When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

Gautama Buddha

#5. Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

Gautama Buddha

#6. The calligraphy reads, "Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha." Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha, or practicing meditation is nothing other than studying ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#7. All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

Gautama Buddha

#9. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

Gautama Buddha

#10. I am not the human being that you see. I am the light. In my heart, I feel dances of electromagnetic waves of love and spirit.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars. - BUDDHA

Jack Kornfield

#13. Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.

Debasish Mridha

#14. If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Gautama Buddha

#15. When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

Gautama Buddha

#16. Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

Pema Chodron

#18. Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.

Debasish Mridha

#19. If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#20. Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not - they cannot - express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.

Steve Hagen

#21. The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Every morning the sunrises to enlighten your heart so that a flower of hope can bloom in your garden.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Like a caring mother
holding and guarding the life
of her only child,
so with a boundless heart
of lovingkindness,
hold yourself and all beings
as your beloved children.

Gautama Buddha

#24. Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

Gautama Buddha

#25. Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Gautama Buddha

#26. How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

Gautama Buddha

#27. With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

Gautama Buddha

#28. Giving with love is more rewarding for the giver's heart and mind than the receiver

Debasish Mridha

#29. Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

Gautama Buddha

#30. Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

Gautama Buddha

#31. The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Gautama Buddha

#32. I love the morning sun because it enlightens my heart and teaches me how to love others with an abundance of warmth and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#33. If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#34. When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

Gautama Buddha

#35. For those regarded as warriors ...
When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.

Quentin Tarantino

#36. Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

Gautama Buddha

#37. Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Izumi Shikibu

#38. Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

Debasish Mridha

#39. If you are loving, you will attract love. If you are kind, you will attract kindness. If your heart is at peace, you will create an aura of peacefulness around you.

Debasish Mridha

#40. I have no words to express my sadness, grief, and frustration. I never thought Bengali people could do such a heinous and atrocious thing. My heart goes out to those innocent victims and their families.

Debasish Mridha

#41. When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers.

Debasish Mridha

#42. Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.

Gautama Buddha

#43. Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Akinari Ueda

#44. As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

Gautama Buddha

#45. Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.

Gautama Buddha

#46. Ah! Such a beautiful morning! Let us be the sunshine in someone's life and fill her heart with untold joy.

Debasish Mridha

#47. Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

Gautama Buddha

#48. Miracles can only happen when you expect miracles with all of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Let prosperity flow into you like the waves of love and kindness that fill your heart and mind.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.

Swami Vivekananda

#51. Ah! Your heavenly smile makes my heart dance with the ecstasy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#52. Your life is your dream dreamt by your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#53. No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

Henry Miller

#54. If you have to pray and sacrifice an animal to purify your heart, that is not a prayer. That is pure hatred.

Debasish Mridha

#55. May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

Gautama Buddha

#56. A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Buddha

#57. And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#58. If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

Gautama Buddha

#59. Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.

Gautama Buddha

#60. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." ~ Buddha

Angela E. Lauria

#61. If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

Gautama Buddha

#62. Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.

Gautama Buddha

#63. Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted ... For in all the world this state of heart is best.

Gautama Buddha

#64. Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

Sylvia Boorstein

#65. A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#66. Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.

Debasish Mridha

#67. The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Cleanse your own heart; This is the religion of the Buddha.

Arthur E. Powell

#68. Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Gautama Buddha

#69. A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.

Debasish Mridha

#70. Oh my lovely moon! Touch my thirsty heart with your ocean of silvery silent love.

Debasish Mridha

#71. Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.

Nichiren

#72. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.

Gautama Buddha

#73. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

Gautama Buddha

#74. Ah! Summer is here. Celebrate the lights, dance with the blooming flowers, swim with the heart touching waves, sing under the dreamy starlight, dance with the winds, fall in love with the blue sky and the simple joys of life.

Debasish Mridha

#75. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

Tara Brach

#76. To welcome the present with an open hand and heart, let your past go with appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

#77. Smiling is the most powerful exercise to build a joyful mind and a blissful heart.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Love one another." If we took those simple words to heart, we'd already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be.

Kathleen Dowling Singh

#79. There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

Gautama Buddha

#80. Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

Gautama Buddha

#81. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.

Debasish Mridha

#82. Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.

Gautama Buddha

#83. If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just.

Debasish Mridha

#84. The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart ... Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

Sharon Salzberg

#85. A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Gautama Buddha

#86. Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#87. A loving heart blooms like a flower that attracts all the beauty and light of life.

Debasish Mridha

#88. To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.

Gautama Buddha

#89. As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

Gautama Buddha

#90. What is most needed is a loving heart.

Gautama Buddha

#91. To sing with the voice of angels as we do the work of angels. To laugh with the laugh of Buddha as we go to our awakening. To extend the arms of Jesus to welcome the presence of children and let them climb into our hearts.

Hugh Prather