Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate"… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“If you don't know yourself, you may easily blow away opportunities meant for your success! Know who you are made of and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The Society of Professional Journalists believes that "public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy." If that is… — Larry J. Schweiger Copy Share Image
There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he… — Shelby D. Hunt Copy Share Image
Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of… — Dharma Publishing Copy Share Image
“It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
“We’ (the enlightened one) do not have buddhi (intellect). ‘We’ too would become emotional, if We had intellect. ‘We’ are abuddha (one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The relative (vyavahaar) is taught by one's mother and the Real (Nischay; the Self) is given by Gnani. Thereafter, nothing else remains… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to choose between Buddha or badass. The idea is to be both. Indeed, sometimes the only way to be… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Satsang means the path to One's own town, to One's own home! Satsang is the discussion of one's own Self, everything else… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“No label can define the immensity of your True nature. You are the awareness that precedes every label, the awareness that is… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we… — Dimitri Zaik Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
