“Returning to where It used to see blossoms, My mind, changed, Will stay on at Yoshino... Home now, and see anew.” — Saigyo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever. — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
Obviously there is a lot more ecstasy in the spirit than in the flesh but the flesh has its moments! — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others. — Dogen Copy Share Image
To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature. — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
“Time punishes those who stray from the path of dharma. Console yourself with the belief that this is the will of God.” — M.T. Vasudevan Nair Copy Share Image
It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I've been practicing Buddhism for a while. So, I call myself a Jew-Bu, because my tribe is still Jew. But my philosophy… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
“and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A true experience of prajna corresponds to “enlightenment” or liberation—not change, but transformation—a profound vision of his identity with universal life, past,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here...… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Taoist (as well as Buddhist) science therefore seeks the eternal, universal light of consciousness that lies hidden like a 'shining pearl' in… — Paul Reid Copy Share Image
“Things can get tough out there. I am in no way saying life is easy and we should breeze through it like… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Dalai Lama famously said, “If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.” — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“enlightenment or the teaching of the Course, is nothing but the bringing together of opposites.” — Master Teacher Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
