Jetsunma Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#3. There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#5. It's good to be anywhere.

Keith Richards

#6. Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#7. One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#8. Knowest thou not who is most needed by all? He who commandeth great things. To execute great things is difficult: but the more difficult task is to command great things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#10. The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#11. Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.

Iris Apfel

#12. All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

Bob Dylan

#13. My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

Penelope Spheeris

#14. No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#15. There is no way to be in cyclic existence without creating the causes of suffering.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#16. If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#17. Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

John Webster

#18. In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#19. A smile is the beginning of peace.

Mother Teresa

#20. No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#21. Your conduct matters a great deal. What's in your mind matters even more.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo