(75 quotes found)
“In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.”
Dalai Lama
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....”
Albert Einstein
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
“Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“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
“I am a simple Buddhist monk.”
“There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster”
H. H. Munro
““Beyond our own personal perception of the world existing or not existing - the world does exist" Domo Geshe Rinpoche”
Domo Geshe
“I think all sorts of things do [help], in terms of Buddhism, in terms of therapy. I think people choose things that they need that are going to help them. And obviously, I've seen my father do some magnificent work.”
Nicole Kidman
“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