The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The one philosophy or religion I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I have an odd capacity to escape reality. It makes life much more pleasant. Now, in this moment, I realize I have… — John Kenney Copy Share Image
“Can you picture Ghandi or Buddha storming into the polling place of a local election, shouting, overturning tables, sending the participants fleeing?… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Second, some common interpretations of our shared past are badly in need of correction. Secular liberals who claim that the United States… — Philip S Gorski Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhism, for example, as practiced by Suzuki, the excellent Japanese mystic, has nothing to do with the superstitious and predjudiced Buddhism… — Marcelo Ramos Motta Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism,… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“They were the good old days. Don't give up hope in the bad new days, which will become the good old days.… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the… — David Loy Copy Share Image
“ Machik thus maintains that what is conventionally referred to as a "god" is in fact the positive nature of reflexive awareness… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
“As the son of the Buddha I imagine Rahula lived with a lot of stress and pressure and yet always in the… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
“What’s true? What’s false? In case you haven’t noticed, the world has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“For this expanse of dharmas just as it is, the conventional term "ultimate reality" is used. You might object, "What do you… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
“I believe in kindness and karma—which could make me a Buddhist. I believe in mystic healing and crystals’ powers—which could make me… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people.… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
