Ajahn Chah Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

  Ajahn Chah

  Moving, Heart, Light

• The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

  Ajahn Chah

  Heart, Found, Balanced

• Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.

  Ajahn Chah

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

• Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

  Ajahn Chah

  Book, Reading, Heart

• The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

  Ajahn Chah

  Love, Letting Go, Hate

• Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

  Ajahn Chah

  Peace, Heart, Turtles

• When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.

  Ajahn Chah

  Letting Go, Heart

  Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.245, Buddhist Publication Society

• The heart is the only book worth reading.

  Ajahn Chah

  Book, Reading, Heart

• Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Heart, Watches, Emotion

• At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

  Ajahn Chah

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

• The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.

  Ajahn Chah

  Heart, Feelings, Just A Thought

  Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.246, Buddhist Publication Society

• We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

  Ajahn Chah

  Giving Up, Rain, Fall

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