In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The one philosophy or religion I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Can you picture Ghandi or Buddha storming into the polling place of a local election, shouting, overturning tables, sending the participants fleeing?… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“When you see through a defense mechanism, you don’t stop at the intimidating behavior but go right on into the underlying misperception… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
“The Gnani’s (enlightened one’s) antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) becomes just like the pure Soul. The chit stops… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Although all of the above-mentioned five doctrines were preached by the Buddha Himself, yet there are some that belong to the Sudden,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The test of Guru is that by following his instructions. You'll be free from anxiety...Don't try to find a cheap Guru as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't compare my life growing up in Leimert Park to someone in Imperial Village Projects; we don't have the same options… — Dom Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We create the world around us based on our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and emotions. Evil, dark forces, dark energy etc. are forms… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“It’s so interesting how transparency works. Not only can you see yourself when you open, relax, show up fully, and allow vulnerability… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
“As the son of the Buddha I imagine Rahula lived with a lot of stress and pressure and yet always in the… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
“Arhat, the Killer of thieves (i.e., passions), means one who conquered his passions. It means, secondly, one who is exempted from birth,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“In brief, the Karmapa says, with regard to the manner of what is to be proven and the means of proof in… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“In order to find what the concept of God is pointing to, you must let go of your image of God and… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A lot of people, after seeking a bit, have some experience, and sometimes will believe they're enlightened. One has to be careful… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is simply realizing the indisputable Truth of who you are. You are fundamentally complete in every respect, and cannot be improved… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a… — Osho Copy Share Image
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be… — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“However, one should be equally aware that, within the entirety of the Buddha's teachings of expedient and definitive meaning in his three… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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