I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your dharma is what kind of work you should be doing, what kind of people you should associate with, whether you should… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you in all honesty that there is no Deity or Messiah, no Jesus or Muhammad, no angel or… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“When we make mindfulness central to the whole practice of the Buddha-Dharma we are in danger of watering down the teachings to… — Christopher Titmuss Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy,… — Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the key to moving forward. The mind is illuminated with the truth. Stupidity is the absence of reasoning. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A self-motivation is an enlightenment of mind, empowerment of heart and enrichment of soul to arise, awake and ascend to achieve the… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the illusion under which our minds work,… — Sharon Ellis Copy Share Image
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The theater is the place where people create ideas and send messages out, and you learn, and I think it's a fair… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Positive, truthful and helping people always get rewards. Oneness, love, compassion and enlightenment can be attained by following the spiritual laws of… — Hina Hashmi Copy Share Image
“Both Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism teach the doctrine of Anatman, or Non-self. It is the denial of soul as conceived by common… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“On meditation Real Happiness, Sharon Salzberg Insight Meditation, Joseph Goldstein On Buddhism and mindfulness in general Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart,… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
