Socially Engaged Buddhism

Famous quotes containing the words socially, engaged and/or buddhism:

“What I wanted was to create thoughtful citizens—people who believed they could live interesting lives and be productive and socially useful. So I tried to create a community of children and adults where the adults shared and respected the children’s lives.”
—Deborah Meier (b. 1931)

“Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn’t eaten any.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)