“He who has resolved once that 'I will certainly get rid of the mistakes that are left in me', can become Parmatma… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after… — Nyogen Senzaki Copy Share Image
The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience… — Dr. Jennifer Howard "Your Ultimate Life Plan Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One… — Thrangu Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The parable of the gem in the robe is very short, only one paragraph long in the Murano translation. Yet in spite… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Anything worth having doesn’t come easy' is a perception of negativity perpetuated by misery looking for company. Accept nothing but the opposite… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Its mental discipline, however, is by far more fruitful, and keeps one's mind in equipoise, making one neither passionate nor dispassionate, neither… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Conventionally though, not realizing this [undifferentiable unity] is labeled "the phase of cyclic existence," while its realization, just as it is, [is… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“These new gurus even wrote text about what it was they were teaching, but the true meaning, power and role of the… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“It’s very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it’s not about awakening, they should change the… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others, just listen to your mind. You don't have to go… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything… — Cynthia Occelli Copy Share Image
I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Service is an expression of inner growth and development, It is the muscle-building of virtues. It is the barometer of inner development… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
“We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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