Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.
Gautama BuddhaThe grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
Gautama BuddhaAs a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.
Gautama BuddhaIn the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
Gautama Buddha