“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We are one multidimensional being and exist in multiple universes transcending space and time. We could also be described as multiple personalities… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The founders of modern Burma believed that they could guarantee prosperity and happiness by correctly choosing the moment for the rebirth of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a method-less act – an act of contemplation – an act of being. And this contemplation or this being is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Some people think that expedient meanings are false and deceiving and thus should not be relied upon. Also, some Buddhists say, "We… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“I will be a better Catholic, not if I can refute every shade of Protestantism, but if I can affirm the truth… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“1. Accept everything just the way it is. 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. 3. Do not, under any… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“As we have taken the circle as a symbol of reason and madness, we may very well take the cross as a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Live in this world without being from this world... look at all saints who lived in this earth.. look how meekness they… — Lucas Gialluisi Copy Share Image
What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“When we extinguish our ideas of more and less, is and is not, we attain the extinction of ideas and notions, which… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“The horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist because they do not exist at all. The mere realization of their non-existence… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
“This moment is not life waiting to happen, goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken, connections waiting to be… — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Often they descended to their grave with an ironic smile – for what was there left of them to bury! Only the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Relativism is self-contradictory. If someone claims to be a relativist, don't believe it. A relativist will say that your belief is true… — Ted Cabal Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral.… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity. The one… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“First she got Jesus, probably fifteen years ago, and that didn’t work out, so she tried Scientology, and that didn’t help, but… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Tolle, Eckhart) - Your Highlight on Location 61-61 | Added on Tuesday, May… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
