I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are… — Donte Stallworth Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“To be enlightened is always to be enlightened about something. I am enlightened about the fact that I am drinking a glass… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Change is the very nature of Nature. if there's one thing that doesn't change, it is the fact that everything changes. In… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Begin to live in other levels of attention all the time whether you're at work, driving or running on the beach. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the… — Brian Stock Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling,… — Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel Dakini Power Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Copy Share Image
“Or the Japanese may go in an entirely different direction—an interesting possibility, given that the West itself has now begun to question… — Patrick Smith Copy Share Image
“If we can unify the apparent duality between the great uncontrollable energy and the natural wisdom of our monkey mind, if we… — Oeset Drakir Copy Share Image
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The human mind has the potential for infinite development. If you can discover, even in a small way, that true satisfaction comes… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“Anticipating the collapse of secular reason, Hamann thus brings us to a decidedly postmodern crossroads, at which point one can take the… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind… — Julia Butterfly Hill Copy Share Image
“A pozitív gondolkodás fogalma eredetileg egy ősi buddhista hagyomány nyomán jött létre. Fönnmaradt egy legenda, miszerint Buddha és a tanítványai néztek egy… — Popper Péter Copy Share Image
“Our Butkara ruins were a magical place to play hide-and-seek. Once some foreign archaeologists arrived to do some work there and told… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“No, on the contrary! In enlightenment you have freed yourself of any sense of “I”, and you certainly have not evolved into… — Jan Esmann Copy Share Image
“According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“I once found an ego, crawling around and trying to shine on me. I took it in my arms and the ego… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
“You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do something that has no… — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Buddha taught, “Breathing in, I recognize my feeling. Breathing out, I calm my feeling.” If you practice this, not only will your… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“One who knows sankalp (I) - vikalp (my) is nirvikalp (Pure Soul, the Real Self). To believe the function (dharma) of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
