If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that. So, congratulations on being free,… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be re-born. Being re-born, one is able to let go of suffering… — VD Copy Share Image
We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or “enlightenment… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what‘s important.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The male establishment power structure has not really changed its attitude towards women. They did not give these rights to women out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, the word has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Any religious expression of truth, however bizzare or uncouth, is more sufficing than any secular one, however elegant and intellectually brilliant. Animistic… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“Nan Fink Gefen, a Jewish meditation teacher and author of an introduction to Jewish meditation, identifies three major sources of contemporary Jewish… — Rifat Sonsino Copy Share Image
“In your light, I see my shadows. So please, know that if I go away, it won't be your fault. It would… — Ramesh Sood Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where… — Machik Labdrön Copy Share Image
“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation… — Tulku Urgyen Copy Share Image
People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life. — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human… — Albert Low Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
