“By suffering, one is shown a path to awareness. Along that path is where one discovers that he is truly born. By… — VD Copy Share Image
If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?" The monk said,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's… — Reginald Ray Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Anthony Morganti Copy Share Image
“But someone may ask, is there any real reason why these sages, whether Buddhist or Stoic, should not recapture the soul of… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the… — Guy T. Simpson Jr Copy Share Image
“The first principle is that the business should be successful: that it should make money. There is a belief prevalent in America… — Geshe Michael Roach Copy Share Image
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe anything simply because it is spoken of and… — Habib Sadeghi Copy Share Image
“For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience… — Dr. Jennifer Howard "Your Ultimate Life Plan Copy Share Image
Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, all of mankind’s disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant,… — Beth Johnson Copy Share Image
Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were,… — William Ames Copy Share Image
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
