Top 12 Quotes by Christmas Humphreys

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

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When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

Christmas Humphreys

Past, Thinking, Sky

Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

Christmas Humphreys

Life, Equality, Men

Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”

The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.

Christmas Humphreys

Karma, Running, Debt

Christmas Humphreys (1983). “Karma and rebirth”, Routledge

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Christmas Humphreys

Common Sense, Truth Is, Our Lives

Christmas Humphreys (2003). “Teach Yourself Zen”, Teach Yourself

Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.

Christmas Humphreys

Thinking, Radio Waves, Mind

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Christmas Humphreys

Accepting, I Can

Christmas Humphreys (2012). “Exploring Buddhism”, p.74, Routledge

As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

Christmas Humphreys

Life, Brother, Learning

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Christmas Humphreys

Long, Illusion, Fear Of Death

Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

Christmas Humphreys

Karma, Men, Law

Christmas Humphreys (1983). “Karma and rebirth”, Routledge

By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?

Christmas Humphreys

Buddhist, Moving, Mean

Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”