Buddhist Quotes

Thoughtful Buddhist quotes can be used on cards and in speeches. You can find many more quotes on the websites of Buddhist organisations.

• "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description ... If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism." - Albert Einstein.

"Biology and theoretical physics have brought us some fascinating knowledge ... but does knowing such things help us elucidate the basic mechanisms of happiness and suffering? " - Matthieu Ricard.

"Whatever progress we make in medicine, we can only temporarily treat sufferings that never stop coming back, and culminate in death... isn't there a way of discovering an inner peace that doesn't depend on health, power, success, money or the pleasures of the senses." - Matthieu Ricard.

"I for one could never compare the interest of scientific research with that of spiritual research, which brings such satisfaction and joy in every instant." - Matthieu Ricard.

"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." - Bhagavad Gita