Buddha Quotes

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us.

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.