Quotes On Bodhisattvas

#1. I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

Steven Weinberg

#2. Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

Frederick Lenz

#4. A true bodhisattva is one who sees no demarcations between organic and non-organic, self and non-self, living beings and non-living beings, bodhisattvas and non-bodhisattvas.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#6. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

Dalai Lama

#7. Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just as the Buddha is the King of the Law; so is the Lotus Sutra, it is the King of all Sutras!
(LS 23:2.16)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 23, Section 2, Paragraph 16

Gautama Buddha

#9. A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. Bodhisattvas lean into their world and are present enough in the moment that they can do whatever is needed.

Lodro Rinzler

#11. Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

Nhat Hanh

#12. Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Aldous Huxley

#13. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#14. There is no truth. Only points of view.

Edith Sitwell

#15. A lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Bill Shankly

#16. The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.

Tom Robbins

#17. If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.

David Mitchell

#18. Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

James Gleick

#19. For everyone who knows there was enough room for Leonardo DiCaprio on that door. And

Cynthia Hand

#20. Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

Cornelia Connelly

#21. One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.

Carole King

#22. Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.
She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?"
"Alive," I say.

John Green

#23. I had always been in love with Parker - but I was finally falling back in love with him. It felt good and it felt right.

Kira Adams

#24. I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.

Ahna O'Reilly