I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The world will continue to make life difficult until you stop choosing the easy path every time. - Dharma ” — Sophie McKeand Copy Share Image
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The process of awakening or enlightenment is nothing but to empty yourself from inside, and make you encounter with the real being,… — Roshan Sharma Copy Share Image
Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“Buddhists say that thoughts are like drops of water on the brain; when you reinforce the same thought, it will etch a… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“All of us must go through the dance of searching out the answers for enlightenment about God. Sometimes all we get are… — Nancy Phippen Browne Copy Share Image
I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“What the radical Enlightenment excluded as implausible based on the principle of analogy, much of today’s world can accept on the same… — Craig S. Keener Copy Share Image
“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One should plan for spiritual enlightenment. At least bring a flashlight.” — Lia Hills Copy Share Image
“If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists. — Dogen Copy Share Image
![“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b03/quentin-s-crisp-4149_body_i-think-imagination-very-austere-element_1631590.jpg)
