“Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The path to enlightenment is not a path. It is a realization that you are already the goal.” — Susan Shumsky Copy Share Image
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that… — Rafe Martin Copy Share Image
“A man's mind may make him a Buddha, or it may make him a beast. Misled by error, one becomes a demon; enlightened, one… — Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Copy Share Image
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Who is the yogi who abides in a nonconceptual state? One who rightly abides without projections, in peace, with all fabrication of… — Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things...but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any… — Vivian Amis Copy Share Image
“Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Sutra That Unravels the Intention states: Here, the Buddha teaches the five characteristics of the ultimate. The five characteristics of the… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“A true experience of prajna corresponds to “enlightenment” or liberation—not change, but transformation—a profound vision of his identity with universal life, past,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“But these trees don’t grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except… — Osho Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha? — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Spirit did not enter flesh to suffer; it entered flesh to awaken inside it.” — Sean B. McElhill Copy Share Image
When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.” — Rick Roderick Copy Share Image
The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.” — Teresa Lo Copy Share Image
