The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there. — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
“Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?” — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This our worldly life is an activity of Nirvana itself; not the slightest distinction exists between them.” — Houston Smith quoting The Perfection of Wisdom Copy Share Image
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is human religion (manav-dharma) when you give happiness to others, you will receive happiness and when you give unhappiness to others,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not a Buddhist, but there is something lovely about thinking of yourself in a bigger picture, and thinking of yourself as… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm a Buddhist or anything, but I think we've all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
“Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journey to walk toward enlightenment. Living on… — Linda Tucker Copy Share Image
“To most Westerners, the Philippines suffers from a lack of exoticism. Simply put, Philippine culture is just too accessible. To a young… — Steven Martin Copy Share Image
“If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional, as means to an end. The same holds good of… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“It’s all Dhamma if we have mindfulness. When we see the animals that run away from danger, we see that they are… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Good friendship, in Buddhism, means considerably more than associating with people that one finds amenable and who share one's interests. It means… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness opposes judgment, conceptualization, words, language, reason, logic, knowledge, understanding, science, philosophy, mathematics, history, intellectualism, learning from the past and planning for… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
“How much of your life do you spend looking forward to being somewhere else?” — Matthew Flickstein Copy Share Image
The future exists as much as the past - it does not. Why not focus on being? The gift of life, the… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“Buddhism finds happiness in the midst of rather than the absence of problems.” — Woody Hochswender Copy Share Image
Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dharma simply means the right thing in the right place, in the right space. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
