Buddhas Quotes and Sayings

• If you go on reacting in your life -- somebody insults you and you become angry, somebody says something and you become sad, somebody says something, you become very happy -- if it is a reaction, a push-button reaction, then by and by you will start believing that you are the body. The body is a mechanism. It is not you. You live in it, it is your abode, but you are not it. You are totally different. - Osho
   

• You become a soul the moment you start responding. Response means now you are not reacting mechanically. You contemplate, you meditate, you give a gap to your consciousness to decide. You are the deciding factor. Somebody insults you: in reaction he is the deciding factor. You simply react; he manipulates you. In response you are the deciding factor: somebody insults you -- that is not primary, that is secondary. You think over it. You decide whether to do this or that. You are not overwhelmed by it. You remain untouched, you remain aloof, you remain a watcher. - Osho
   

• A great soul witnesses his body’s actions as if they were another’s.
  How can praise or blame disturb him? - Sage Astavakra
   

• Life ordinarily is nothing but a habit, a mechanical habit. Unless you become aware, unless you become really aware, it will be difficult to get out of it. - Osho
   

• remain a witness to your emotions
  as if from a great distance
  an eagles eye view
  slowly this simple knack
  of remaining a detached witness
  to your subtle emotions will grow stronger - Swami Rajneesh
   

• Once a man is determined to realise the Truth, he finds that his path is beset with many difficulties, and there are very few who persist with steady courage till the very end. It is easy to give up effort when one is confronted with obstacles. - Meher Baba
   

• God’s existence does not depend on our proofs. There is something wrong with the philosophers and the theologians, for they have the curious notion that God is a kind of hypothesis that can be analyzed and discussed. - Swami Rama