A View on Buddhism Quotes of Wisdom J L

A View on Buddhism -- Quotes of Wisdom (J-L)

A View on Buddhism Quotes of Wisdom

(NON-BUDDHIST) (Sorted more or less by alphabetic order of the writer.)

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Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted... Javan

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Thomas Jefferson

Carl Gustav Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Your vision will become clear when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.

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If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

Krishnamurti And with love, do what you will, there is no risk; there is no conflict. Then love is the essence of virtue. And a mind that is not in a state of love, is not a religious mind at all.

'Attention' implies to attend, that is, to listen, hear, see, with all the totality of your being...completely. In that total attention - in which there is no division - you can do anything.

We have invented god. The thinking created god for itself. That means, due to unhappiness, fear and depression we created something, called god. When you are free of fear, free of suffering, there is no desire for a god.

Martin Luther King, Jr. The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor, it first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them a new self-respect; It calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation for such method is love.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos

Once in awhile it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. Alan Keightley

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-- which is why they call it the present. Bill Keane

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain. John F. Kennedy

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Lao-Tzu To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up. Vince Lombardi

Leaves of Grbutt Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been." Let's add this thought, unto this verse: "It might have been a great deal worse."

If we give love and symphathy even to those who hate us we fill them so with mystery they know not how to rate us.

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. Walter Linn