#buddhist

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years. ↗

— Tina Turner

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Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you. ↗

— Tom Hardy

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Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist. ↗

— Jim Coleman

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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy. ↗

— Richard Gere

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Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are. ↗

— Richard Gere

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Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

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I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

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Cause and effect, in the Buddhist sense, though. Any action you undertake creates a seed that will sprout when the conditions are right, creating a good or bad result." "Do you believe in it?" He doesn’t allow even a pause. “Very much so. ↗

— Jacquie Underdown

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War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? ↗

— Mike Norton

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