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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old. ↗

— K. D. Lang

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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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Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists. ↗

— Norodom Sihanouk

#buddhists #cambodia #look #neutrals #ourselves

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

#christian #citizen #communism #compassion #country

If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. ↗

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#change

Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#inspirational

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care. ↗

— Suman Jyoty Bhante

#buddhist-quotes #dhamma #inspirational #religion #science

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain. ↗

— Tara Brach

#buddhist #inspirational #radical-acceptance #inspirational

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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