Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Divine Messages - 129: Quotes from Speaking Tree


Some quotes from Speaking Tree by Gautam Buddha.
  • The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
  • As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
  • Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
  • Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.
  • What we think, we become.
  • The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
  • Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
  • On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
  • His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
  • If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
  • You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.

Speaking Tree Web Site – speakingtree.in