When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better.… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“In Asia, we say that there are three sources of energy--sexual, breath, and spirit...You need to know how to reestablish the balance,… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes… — Guo Jun Copy Share Image
“This Buddhist view of happiness has a lot in common with the biochemical view. Both agree that pleasant sensations disappear as fast… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Breakdown of religious affiliation in the United States Christians: 78 percent Unaffiliated: 16 Muslims, Hindus, Folk religion, other: 3* Jews: 2 Buddhists 1 *all less than 1 percent” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
“Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.” — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The core teachings of Buddhism stand in distinct contradiction to Hinduism. Whereas Hinduism believes that evil does not exist and is an… — Ed Hindson Copy Share Image
