“Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell… — Designing the Mind 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
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
“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
“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
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“We choose ignorance because we can . We choose awareness because we can . Samsara and nirvana are simply different points of… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us.… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“We give something, and that opens the possibility of receiving: we naturally receive something when we give. This is how we live,… — Ogyen Trinley Dorje 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 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are.… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
“Though glorification of the self has been a central motif in human history since the Fall, the individual autonomy of the Enlightenment… — Gale Heide Copy Share Image
“There are many paths leading to One. These herbs carry within their fragile essence a secret of Life, Universe, Creation, and the… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
How much of what the biblical writers believed about the supernatural world do I believe? They weren't us. We are products of… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One of the great gifts of the Enlightenment is that we can form communities without necessaily agreeing on ultimate metaphysical grounds. We… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we must make sure to heal our impaired vision, filter our perception, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a condition of energetic imbalance. As with all human conditions it is an illusion, albeit a very debilitating one if… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
