To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Gautama BuddhaOvercome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
Gautama BuddhaAll wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Gautama BuddhaA virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.
Gautama Buddha