The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world is wonderful. It is beautiful when you are in a correct level of attention. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you think of thoughts of success and back them up with hard work, then you will be a winner. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind… — David C. Downing Copy Share Image
There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right… — Margaret Bondfield Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“At last the bottom fell out. No more water in the pail. No more moon in the water.” — as the character Wendy John Gould in the short story Copy Share Image
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
