“Love requires learning to love ourselves in the mirror, and learning to look other people in the eye. Buddhism, in turn, asks… — Ethan Nichtern 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
You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no… — Rick Warren 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
“And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful,… — David J. Kalupahana Copy Share Image
“Its mental discipline, however, is by far more fruitful, and keeps one's mind in equipoise, making one neither passionate nor dispassionate, neither… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“I was thirty years old before I had an actual thought. Everything up till then was either what Buddhists call “monkey-mind” chatter… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. “Man is born free but… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The reality of nature, the reality of life is oneness. But we humans have such a strong egotistic nature. We are the… — Gyomay M Kubose Copy Share Image
Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists,… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
“First, contrary to popular belief, Buddhists can actually be very anxious people. That’s often why they become Buddhists in the first place.… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence… — Bill W Copy Share Image
“The first universal order to appear was economic: the monetary order. The second universal order was political: the imperial order. The third… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Appreciation and contentment, the ability to rejoice in all things large and small, is a major training of Buddhism. The Dharmapada says:… — Tulku Thondup Copy Share Image
Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment, first of all, implies an insight into the nature of Self. It is an emancipation of mind from illusion concerning Self.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The issue with desire is at the root of what it means to be human. There are major issues with how we… — Laura Dodsworth Copy Share Image
... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“As human beings, identity and self image are fused into the way we move and hold ourselves. Because even if we are… — Jane Hardjono Copy Share Image
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“Our ancient sources of wisdom call on human beings to rise to their highest capacity and behave in extraordinarily open and generous… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for… — Michael Eggleston Copy Share Image
I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“As long as we're in a state of confusion, overwhelmed by the three conflicting emotions, trapped in cyclic existence, we're not happy… — Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje Copy Share Image
Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the ability to see beyond all the things we make God to find God. We make religion God and so… — Maryknoll Missions Maryknoll Book of Prayer Copy Share Image
Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment; the Holy Spirit's blueprint by with each individual soul is led to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I want to help you understand Buddhism from the ground-level, from a totally introductory standpoint, so that you can take from it… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
“The people like me, finally, after years and years of agitation, made deeply moving and eloquent speeches against the wrongness of your… — Jamiaca Kincaid Copy Share Image
“These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
