Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old shinto quotes, shinto sayings, and shinto proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.Hanya Yanagihara
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Shinto is still, in a manner of speaking, the soul of Japan, and even young Westernised Japanese who take no part in its manifold ritual, are conditioned, as their parents and grandparents were, by its fundamental characteristics.Shinichi Nagai
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Shinto is essentially a religion of gratitude and love.W.G. Aston
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Sincerity is the single virtue that binds divinity and man in one.Shinto. Jingishoju
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Shinto is a way that is practised every morning and evening, in the acts of daily life, by every individual from the emperor to the common people… there is nothing within human life that does not belong to Shinto.Watarai Nobuyoshi
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The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine... a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear.Marie Kondo
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Shinto lies at the root of the whole of Japanese culture.Rene Grousset
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.Socrates
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Japanese mind is synonymous with Shinto mind.William Gleason
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A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.Sokyo Ono
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The nature of Shinto speaks to our human nature…. Shinto speaks to us, to something in us which is deep and permanent.Donald Richie
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To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty.Yukitaka Yamamoto
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Even the wishes of a small ant reach heaven.Japanese Proverb
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For Shinto, at root, is a religion not of sermons but of awe: which is a sentiment that may or may not produce words, but in either case goes beyond them.Joseph Campbell
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Retribution for good or ill is as sure as the shadow after substance.unknown
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Many Japanese weddings are performed in the Shinto tradition in which the ceremony is held in a Shinto shrine.Deborah A. Levine
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Instead of reacting against Buddhism, Shinto raised its prestige by identifying itself more closely than ever with the interests of the central government, co-operating with Buddhism in that respect. The identity of the Sun-goddess with the Buddha Locana was formally proclaimed in connection with the foundation of Central cathedral.Masaharu Anesaki
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In the past, Shinto has generally been translated as the 'Way of Gods.'William P. Woodard
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Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, is relatively unknown among the religions of the world. Sokyo Ono
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Shinto is more than religious faith. It is an amalgam of attitudes, ideas, and ways of doing things that through two milleniums and more have become an integral part of the way of Japanese people.Sokyo Ono
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The western understanding of Buddhism as atheistic explains the statement of a Sinhalese estate clerk that Buddhism is 'not a religion but a practice.'.Richard F. Gombrich
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Buddhism differs from agnosticism in that it asserts an innate transcendental faculty in man in which by elimination of all elements of 'defilement' may contemplate Reality and attain perfect knowledge and enlightenment—Nirvana.Christmas Humphreys
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It is Buddhism that has woken me up to my imperfections and given me the ability to chuckle at my needy little ego's constant attempt to find security and self-aggrandizement in an ever-shifting, largely indifferent world.Jeff Wilson
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The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.Ajahn Chah
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.Dogen
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In Buddhism, there's no room even for righteous anger—as I sometimes have to remind myself.Bodhipaksa
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One of the things that attracted me to explore Buddhism in the first place was its uncompromising nonviolence.Bodhipaksa
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In China, Buddhism was rooted in scriptures and not in meditation.Liu Liang Ji
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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.Albert Einstein
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It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.Daisaku Ikeda