Love Buddhism Quotes
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I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.
— Frederick Lenz
Love has no meaning without understanding
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.
— Frederick Lenz
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.
— Frederick Lenz
The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.
— Frederick Lenz
Tragedy is the violation of love.
— Frederick Lenz
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of ... Nothing is left but to love.
— Alan W. Watts
Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha
— Hermann Hesse
Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
— Sharon Salzberg
Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.
— Sharon Salzberg
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
— Sharon Salzberg
Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.
— Allan Lokos
Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.
— Frederick Lenz
When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.
— Frederick Lenz
To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.
— Sharon Salzberg
O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love.
— Anonymous
As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.
— Sharon Salzberg
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.
— Frederick Lenz
Equanimity can be hard to talk about.
— Sharon Salzberg
Living in a story of a limited self - to any degree - is not love.
— Sharon Salzberg
Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.
— Frederick Lenz
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
— Sharon Salzberg
Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.
— Frederick Lenz
We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.
— Frederick Lenz
Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself.
— Darrell Calkins
Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.
— Allan Lokos
With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
— Sharon Salzberg
The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.
— Sharon Salzberg
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
— Frederick Lenz
So often we operate from ideas of love that don't fit our reality.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we love others we see our oneness with others.
— Frederick Lenz
When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.
— Sharon Salzberg
I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.
— Frederick Lenz
You necessarily have to be lost, before you're found.
— T. Scott McLeod
Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.
— Frederick Lenz
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.
— Frederick Lenz
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
— Frederick Lenz
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
— Sharon Salzberg
No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Relationships are a proving ground for love.
— Frederick Lenz
Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.
— Frederick Lenz
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
— Sharon Salzberg
Conquer the angry man by love.
— Gautama Buddha
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.
— Frederick Lenz
Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.
— Gautama Buddha
As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.
— Frederick Lenz
One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Love where there is no reason to love
— Sangharakshita
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
— Sharon Salzberg
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
— Sharon Salzberg
You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.
— Sharon Salzberg
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love
ourselves and to more consistently love others. — Sharon Salzberg
ourselves and to more consistently love others. — Sharon Salzberg
Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage.
— Sharon Salzberg
Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together.
— Frederick Lenz
Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.
— Frederick Lenz
Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us - and our beloveds - healthier.
— Sharon Salzberg
The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.
— Frederick Lenz
It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.
— Frederick Lenz
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
— Sharon Salzberg
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
— Frederick Lenz
When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.
— Frederick Lenz