“We do not understand that we are literally able to live and enjoy life only because of other people and things. If… — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes their immediate reaction is to want to run away because they realize inwardly that the transpositions their life will go through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not a higher way to be. It is just experience. All humanity is enlightened. We are all at different parts… — Allura Eshmun Copy Share Image
“Mantra for Life — “Love Is the Way” Love is the way to enlightenment. Love is the way to happiness. Love is the way… — Srinivart Copy Share Image
What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's exodus from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another person..'Dare… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Despite an ever increasing diversity when it comes to yoga brands, there are only four major paths in yoga and they have… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Mindful awareness is not presented as a passive concentration on a single, steady object, but as a refined engagement with a shifting,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Dear God, Enlighten what's dark in me... Strengthen what's weak in me... Mend what's broken in me... Bind what's bruised in me,… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“What did they care if the rabbis who found them with the books of haskala, of enlightenment, called them epicureans, atheists, breakers… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination.… — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“When we are truly able to see and understand life, its reality, its value and beauty as well as its troubles, we… — Gyomay M Kubose Copy Share Image
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the… — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
