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Top 20 Robert Thurman Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Thurman Quote: “Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.”

1. “Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.”

— Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman Quote: “When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.”

2. “When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “I am daily making myself what I am.”

3. “I am daily making myself what I am.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.”

4. “Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You’re going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.”

5. “Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You’re going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.”

— Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman Quote: “The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.”

6. “The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “You should never be ashamed of the suffering you’ve been through.”

7. “You should never be ashamed of the suffering you’ve been through.”

— Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman Quote: “You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn’t have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.”

8. “You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn’t have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.”

— Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman Quote: “More than whether you live or die, it’s how you are living or dying that is important.”

9. “More than whether you live or die, it’s how you are living or dying that is important.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.”

10. “The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.”

— Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman Quote: “Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.”

11. “Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.”

12. “Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.”

13. “However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Actually there’s a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru’s are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.”

14. “Actually there’s a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru’s are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.”

15. “Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “First of all, “no self” doesn’t mean there is no self, haha. So the “no problem” is jumped at a little too fast I’m afraid. Especially in American culture where people tend to be materialistic philosophically. I don’t mean running to the mall, but philosophically, you see?”

16. “First of all, “no self” doesn’t mean there is no self, haha. So the “no problem” is jumped at a little too fast I’m afraid. Especially in American culture where people tend to be materialistic philosophically. I don’t mean running to the mall, but philosophically, you see?”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.”

17. “Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.”

18. “Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can be more progress towards Buddha-hood, toward love, and wisdom, and helping all being etc. So that’s the great value of it.”

19. “Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can be more progress towards Buddha-hood, toward love, and wisdom, and helping all being etc. So that’s the great value of it.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha’s discovery was happiness and bliss.”

20. “It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha’s discovery was happiness and bliss.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It’s a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you’re in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don’t mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.”

21. “The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It’s a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you’re in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don’t mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.”

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Robert Thurman Quote: “You’re more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you’re responsible for how you change it. It’s very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.”

22. “You’re more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you’re responsible for how you change it. It’s very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.”

— Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman Quote: “Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...”

23. “Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...”

— Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman Quote: “True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.”

24. “True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.”

— Robert Thurman

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