Quotes and Sayings about Buddhism
"Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel."
- Sandra Cisneros
(Related: Life, People, Buddhism, Buddhist, Events, World)
"Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Buddhism)
"When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Buddhism, Connection, Karma, Past)
"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation."
- Stanislav Grof
(Related: Death, Time, Opportunity, Buddhism, Rebirth, Spiritual)
"One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Values, Vision, Buddhism, Support)
"I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Buddhism)
"Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment."
- Bell Hooks
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, Islam, Buddhism, First, Spiritual, Teachers, World)
"I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad."
- Jet Li
(Related: Time, Buddhism, English, Learning, Today)
"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
- Jet Li
(Related: Movies, Buddhism, Past, Years)
"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Religion, Buddhism, Americans, Philosophy, Religious)
"The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them."
- Jamie Muir
(Related: Music, Management, Buddhism, Interest, Months)
"A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality."
- William Winwood Reade
(Related: Religion, Success, Morality, Buddhism, Mankind, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Spirit)
"Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up."
- Kenneth Rexroth
(Related: Life, Temple, Buddhism, Buddhist, Ceremony)
"I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Music, Buddhism)
"Buddhism teaches you to embrace change."
- Koo Stark
(Related: Change, Buddhism)
"There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years."
- Matthew Sweet
(Related: Life, Buddhism, First, Now, Value, Years, Zen)
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
- David Sylvian
(Related: Belief, Discipline, Buddhism, Zen)
"Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Buddhism, Effect, World)
"In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious."
- Tina Turner
(Related: Buddhism, Words)
"All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common."
- Barbara Walters
(Related: Buddhism, End, Heaven)
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Idea, Buddhism, Being, Law)