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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
Buddhist

"You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you."

Art Flower Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same."

Inspirational Brother Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay."

Simple Silly Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility."

Creativity Freedom Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life."

Buddhist Strength Confidence
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering..."

Heart Attitude Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity."

Growing Up Buddhist Trust
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts."

Views Buddhism Buddhist
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
Buddhist

"Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's a dicey job market. You never know.'"

Jobs Buddhist Sri Lanka
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Buddhist

"Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible."

Buddhist Notes Nonsense
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Buddhist

"Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . ."

Christian Attitude Buddhist
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Buddhist

"At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad."

Thinking Attitude Buddhist
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Buddhist

"One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life."

Keys Attention Buddhist
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Buddhist

"We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it."

Mother Christian Buddhist
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Lamar Alexander Politician
Buddhist

"It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California."

Buddhist California Southern
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat."

Life Peace Buddhist
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