What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I know a wise Buddhist monk who, in a speech to his fellow countrymen, once said he'd love to know why someone… — Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the opposite of love,’ I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai’s lectures. A wise man once told me—he’s a Muslim, by… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is quite clear, whether you read Christopher Hitchens or Friedrich Nietzsche, that the image of God running the world to which… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I plan to make the case that we need to move beyond religion if we want to continue the kind of remarkable… — Alan Jeskin Copy Share Image
We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain,… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
“The real moment of enlightenment is when your creative imagination has freed you from the picture of reality you had previously drawn!” — Vasilios Karpos Copy Share Image
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go into the causal realms you become someone else. The light vibrates very quickly. You will see that you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If you think the same as everybody else around you it is fair to say that you are not so much a… — Rick Page Copy Share Image
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each of the seven chakras references different dimensional planes. It is a turnstile that leads us into different dimensions. As the kundalini… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
