Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“it is not because they run out of sky that birds turn back, it is because they lack the strength to keep… — chandrakirti Copy Share Image
I think more like a quantum Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we access, and can influence us.… — Stuart Hameroff Copy Share Image
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and… — Swami Bhaskarananda 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
“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
“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
“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
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
Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God!… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires... — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical… — RZA Copy Share Image
Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can experience ecstasy in any dimension and at any time. Enlightenment is not related to where your physical or astral body… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
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