Buddhism Quotes

“As the Supreme Buddha once said, “The root of suffering is attachment.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“In the end, all any of these religions aim to do is give us hope. The main difference with Buddhism is that it aims to teach us to find hope from within ourselves, rather than seeking outside advice or saviors. It tells us that only we can help ourselves. It’s existentialist in that way, and shockingly modern.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past or worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“If you learn only one thing from this book, let it be that: that an Indian man 2,600 years ago came up with the answer to existential problems long before the existentialists even asked them. He knew it was every man for himself, and that you should accept that and be happy.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“The Supreme Buddha’s main goal was to enlighten people, so that they could live in harmony. Do you know what happened instead? They bickered. They argues over interpretations and over the “right way to study the Supreme Buddha. The disagreed, and because they disagreed they created schisms inn their own lives and branched into a thousand little sects.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“The first truth is that there is suffering in the world. We may know this phrase as, “Shit happens.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“I want to help you understand Buddhism from the ground-level, from a totally introductory standpoint, so that you can take from it what you’d like. This book isn’t to convert you to any religion (everyone knows that, as far as conversions go, Buddhists are probably the least likely), but it instead aims to guide you towards understanding what had been the dominant eastern religion for over 2,000 year.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“Movement meditation involves incorporating the flow of movement into your thoughts”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“happy.   Gautama never wanted to be deified like a God, and that didn’t happen. But people”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“is because the stomach, to Buddhists, is the spiritually core of a person’s body; Buddhists don’t believe in “souls” per se, but they also believe in every part of the body attaching a spiritual”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“that create Buddhism. But we’ll get there soon.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“in mysterious ways.” The big change in Buddhism is that it tries to define that problem and, instead”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“  To be in a state of nirvana means to ignore greed, selfishness, anger and other distracting emotions. It is, in a word, to be emotionally above the rest of the world. It sounds a bit haughty, but the idea is this completely carelessness about oneself, a delicate balance between being self-centered and not being egocentric. Nirvana means being altruistic and kind, understanding selflessness enough to know how small you are in the universe, and being okay with that.   According to one story,”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace