When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“One truth remains clear through the doubts and the questions, whether sinful or sanctified, virtue or vice: While the past may belong… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“So my unsolicited advise to women in the workplace is this: when faced with sexism or agism or lookism or even really… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“You tell me to stand still, but I am not walking," he shouted, "whereas you who are walking say you are still.… — Majjhimanikaya Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“The point was this: if Enlightenment progress is solving the problem of evil, all Jesus needs to have done is to point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“A fate without happiness is sadder than a love without destiny,” said the monk. What had prompted the Buddhist monk to say… — Jeanette Ringel Copy Share Image
A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell,… — Avicii Copy Share Image
It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled… — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For you to reach a state of creative enlightenment, you must wage war on yourself, and start working. Only then will inspiration… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
