If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding…these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path,… — Victoria Stoklasa Copy Share Image
Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's… — Reginald Ray Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Anthony Morganti Copy Share Image
“But someone may ask, is there any real reason why these sages, whether Buddhist or Stoic, should not recapture the soul of… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“The first principle is that the business should be successful: that it should make money. There is a belief prevalent in America… — Geshe Michael Roach Copy Share Image
“We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the… — Guy T. Simpson Jr Copy Share Image
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe anything simply because it is spoken of and… — Habib Sadeghi Copy Share Image
Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of… — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am not nothing but this moment in the flow of life. This flow of life is not in… — Kiyozawa Manshi Copy Share Image
The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As Tibetan Buddhists remind us, “If we take care of the minutes and moments, the hours and days will take care of… — Todd Kashdan Copy Share Image
After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, cop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water ... but no longer trip over things at night. — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“people are finding that in their dramatically transformed circumstances, the old forms of faith no longer work for them: they cannot provide… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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