Quotes About Jainism

#1. Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. If you can get out of the mind you will get out of Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and all kinds of rubbish will be just finished. You can come to a full stop.

Osho

#3. Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Max Weber

#4. The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.

Sam Harris

#5. At its purest, Jainism is almost an atheistic religion, and the much venerated images of the Tirthankaras in temples represent not so much a divine presence as a profound divine absence. I

William Dalrymple

#6. Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

Virchand Gandhi

#7. I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

A.S. Byatt

#8. Blessed be the Sunshine, for it will stem the flow of life's anxieties ... for a while at least

P.A.Davies

#9. This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

Virchand Gandhi

#10. Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.

Mahavira

#11. All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

Mahavira

#12. Most blues begin 'woke up this morning'.

Judith Podell

#13. We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?

Mark X.

#14. May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

Virchand Gandhi

#15. When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

Tyra Banks

#16. If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

Virchand Gandhi

#17. Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

Mahavira

#18. So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.

Paul Monette

#19. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Virchand Gandhi

#20. A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story.

Suzanne Selfors

#21. In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

Mahavira

#22. The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. It seems like the more my body healed, the more fractured my mind became, and there aren't enough wires and screws to fix he breaks in it.

Katja Millay

#24. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

Acharya Mahapragya