[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is not a belief system. It’s not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact,… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated… — Maura O'Halloran Copy Share Image
“And yes, given our circumstances, in this post-enlightenment era of post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry; as meaningless non-entities in a disenchanted… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ATMAN, THE SOUL. The first meaning is: in this world, only consciousness is yours. The word atman means:… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Again, ancient Zenists did not claim that there was any mysterious element in their spiritual attainment, as Do-gen says[FN#259] unequivocally respecting his… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The Buddha isn’t a god or deity to be worshipped. He was a rebel and an overthrower, the destroyer of ignorance, the… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Guru is not the goal. Anyone who establishes himself as a guru to be worshipped is not a guru. Guru is like… — Swami Rama of the Himalayas Dec. 31 1969 Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“If you’re intentionally seeking enlightenment, which manifests as a desire to discover your relationship with the Universe, you’ll use your so-called problems… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We are all divine spirits, helping others on conscious and unconscious levels. The past, present, and future exist simultaneously—all lives, all events… — Elizabeth Herrera Copy Share Image
The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
“A person whom is dissatisfied with the existing constitution of the self might wish to eradicate the self. A spiritual death can… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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“our nature is the mind. and the mind is our nature.this nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. buddhas… — bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity… — Osho Copy Share Image
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“ In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to… — Miller Rory Copy Share Image
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“We alone control our final form through our conscious actions. We become the product of the movement of our mind and our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“No, on the contrary! In enlightenment you have freed yourself of any sense of “I”, and you certainly have not evolved into… — Jan Esmann Copy Share Image
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We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
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![“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of…” quote by Emily Barton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f18/emily-barton-18422_all-kinds_michael-chabon-who-is-himself-a-brash-an_1676238.jpg)
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