Shinjo Ito Quotes

#1. Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

Neale Donald Walsch

#2. I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

Lance Armstrong

#3. My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too.

Gillian Flynn

#4. The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than denounced. This has been the way of Buddhism since the beginning, and this is true Buddhism.

Shinjo Ito

#5. To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

Shinjo Ito

#6. Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

Shinjo Ito

#7. Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

Shinjo Ito

#8. Speculation and constant judging will only limit what you see. Expand your sight by looking at everything in life as an opportunity to develop and transform yourself.

Shinjo Ito

#9. How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

Shinjo Ito

#11. A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Irving Stone

#12. The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

Shinjo Ito

#13. Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

Shinjo Ito

#14. And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

Dave Grohl

#15. What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.

Shinjo Ito

#16. Let us live, my friends, and in living, keep alive our hope for a world made better by our presence in it.

Joseph Brassey

#17. Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Confucius

#18. For you to really make it in life and not be defeated in life, life demands that you stretch yourself. It is a demand of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Jack Kerouac