{"quotes":[{"text":"As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply.","author":"Tsultrim Allione","tags":["buddhism","buddhist","children","love","mother","motherhood"],"id":12749,"author_id":"Tsultrim+Allione"},{"text":"Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind.” ,.","author":"Ama H. Vanniarachchy","tags":["buddha","buddhist","buddhist-psychology","compassion","gautama-buddha","love"],"id":17131,"author_id":"Ama+H.+Vanniarachchy"},{"text":"The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.","author":"Suman Jyoty Bhante","tags":["buddhism","buddhist","dhamma","inspirational","religion","science"],"id":40207,"author_id":"Suman+Jyoty+Bhante"},{"text":"Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.","author":"Tara Brach","tags":["buddhism","buddhist","inspirational","radical-acceptance"],"id":57378,"author_id":"Tara+Brach"},{"text":"The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.","author":"Eric Micha'el Leventhal","tags":["awakening","awareness","buddhist","compassion","desire","game-of-life","illusion","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","know-thyself","maya","miracles","perception","poetry","poetry","reality","self-awareness","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","stillness-of-the-mind","subject-and-object","the-secret","truth","wisdom","wisdom","wonders","zen"],"id":66080,"author_id":"Eric+Micha%27el+Leventhal"},{"text":"Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["awareness","buddhist","scripture","v-19"],"id":81893,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"If there is no wound in your hand You can carry poison in your hand.Poison does not attack one who is unwounded. There is no evil for one who does not do evil.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["buddhist","evil","poison","v-124"],"id":82461,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["buddhist","christian","citizen","communism","compassion","country","dalai-lama","dependence","experience","forgiveness","humanitarianism","islam","muslim","peace","rape","religion","resilient","socialism","soft","soldier","strong","the-pope","tolerance","tolerant","training","war","world"],"id":105970,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Standing DeerAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy to part with,the heart may grow cluttered.And still the house will be emptied,and still the heart.As the thoughts of a personin age sometimes grow sparer,like the great cleanness come into a room, the soul may grow sparer;one sparrow song carves it completely.And still the room is full,and still the heart.Empty and filled,like the curling half-light of morning,in which everything is still possible and so why not.Filled and empty,like the curling half-light of evening,in which everything now is finished and so why not.Beloved, what can be, what was,will be taken from us.I have disappointed.I am sorry. I knew no better.A root seeks water.Tenderness only breaks open the earth.This morning, out the window,the deer stood like a blessing, then vanished.","author":"Jane Hirshfield","tags":["buddhist","inspirational","nature","spiritual"],"id":114495,"author_id":"Jane+Hirshfield"},{"text":"The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view,That one has achieved nothing.","author":"Nāgārjuna","tags":["buddhism","buddhist","emptiness","madhyamaka","nāgārjuna"],"id":132780,"author_id":"N%C4%81g%C4%81rjuna"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}