“Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. — Veronique Vienne 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
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
Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within… — Frederick Lenz 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 connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Eating, drinking, arising, awaking are all dharma (functions) of the body. One has not come within atmadharma (religion of the Soul) even… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is simply realizing the indisputable Truth of who you are. You are fundamentally complete in every respect, and cannot be improved… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
“What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“While aesthetic richness has prevailed in Indian spiritual life form ancient times, there has also been a parallel puritanical aspect among Indian… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard… — Buddha Copy Share Image
Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity. — Jarome Iginla Copy Share Image
“It teaches only that you may become a vehicle of love and communication through this process of enlightenment. Now,” — Master Teacher Copy Share Image
When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is beyond Description and Analysis 2. Enlightenment Implies an Insight into the Nature of Self” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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