George Harrison Quotes

I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

I'm a Buddhist.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.