I must add, though, that I don't believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“For social pathologies like the Great Purges, there are no fully satisfactory explanations. Every individual knows that he is powerless, an actual… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is simply realizing the indisputable Truth of who you are. You are fundamentally complete in every respect, and cannot be improved… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
“While aesthetic richness has prevailed in Indian spiritual life form ancient times, there has also been a parallel puritanical aspect among Indian… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and… — Swami Bhaskarananda Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is quite reasonable that Zenists distinguish supernatural powers from spiritual uplifting, the former an acquirement of Devas, or of Asuras, or… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be… — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“Twenty years ago at a conference I attended of theologians and professors of religion, an Indian Christian friend told the assembly, “We… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“However, one should be equally aware that, within the entirety of the Buddha's teachings of expedient and definitive meaning in his three… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“The story of the Burning House is really about our practice of Buddhism. We are constantly living in a burning house, a… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
“Over and over these organizations tell America that family, above all, is what Christianity is about. Devotion to one's family is, indeed,… — Bruce Bawer Copy Share Image
“Every time we do something nice for someone else, even if it is a routine thing they expect, we can do so… — David Michie Copy Share Image
“I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination;… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Life is full of acceptance and rejection. Unfortunately, many of us focus on the rejection. Yoga tells us it’s more useful to… — Colleen Saidman Yee Copy Share Image
“If a person shows anger to you, and you show anger in return, the result is disaster. If you nurse hatred, you… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“When we make mindfulness central to the whole practice of the Buddha-Dharma we are in danger of watering down the teachings to… — Christopher Titmuss Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you in all honesty that there is no Deity or Messiah, no Jesus or Muhammad, no angel or… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“The primary aim of an Enlightenment is to make peope realize their potential for enlightenment. That enlightenment is not for the selected… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Breathing mindfully, you are already finding a refuge in your breath, and you become aware of what’s going on in your body,… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“If a man speaks many holy words but he speaks and does not, this thoughtless man cannot enjoy the life of holiness:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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