“We have a choice to live in the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Darkness.” — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I wonder briefly whether a schizophrenic Buddhist would be At Two with the universe.” — John Dolan Copy Share Image
I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Being sad is a state of distress, being happy is a state of excitement, being blissful is a state of enlightenment. Have… — Nagaraj Copy Share Image
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“interview 14 leaders from religions including Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism and Islam in an attempt to figure out the ten characteristics their faiths… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“I thought the Pandavas did what they did for dharma,’ said Janamejaya, suddenly unsure. ‘If that had been true, then Vijaya over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in… — Simon Parke Copy Share Image
I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“According to the Buddhist tradition,” he began, “there is no sort of conversion or missionary work. It is not good to ask… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“When one accepts all viewpoints, that is known as the religion of the absolutely Enlightened Ones (Vitaraag dharma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you’re truly present in this moment, then you are a Buddha. At least for this moment! — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God, — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image