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
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 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
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
Happiness is warm puppy. In other words, happiness is the things around you. Just to see that puppy is to be happy.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One of the most essential teachings of Buddhism is an understanding that where you are at this moment is exactly where you… — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is a religion of the heart. Only this. One who practices to develop the heart is one who practices Buddhism [...]… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what path you choose to reach it. Be it Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, quantum physics, Taoism, atheism—what… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“On the basis of its ethical quality, the Buddha distinguishes kamma into two major categories: the unwholesome (akusala) and the wholesome (kusala).… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences. — Frederick Lenz 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
It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. — Gil Fronsdal 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
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
“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
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
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