Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I was too tired, other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening -… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Vatsigotra asked, “Is there a self?” and the Buddha did not say anything. Vatsigotra persisted, “Do you mean there is… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Science has marched forward. But civilization’s values remain rooted in philosophies, religious traditions, and ethical frameworks devised many centuries ago. Even our… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Pagoda are the centre of Burmese spiritual life, and every town and village has one. People visit the pagoda daily or weekly… — Emma Larkin Copy Share Image
“The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) has natural and spontaneous forgiveness (sahaj kshama) even for those worthy of punishment; that forgiveness is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“There exists a universal order that we each play a distinct role in carrying out. Light always struggles to emerge from darkness.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is… — Nagarjun Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals… — Lewis Strauss Copy Share Image
“True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness thus is required for one to be truly born. When one is born, one is… — VD Copy Share Image
The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is construed as seeing things as they really are rather than as they appear; it is a direct insight into, and… — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The Holy Teachings of Vimalakīrti (expertly translated into English by Robert Thurman). In that scripture, the Buddha states that the buddha-fields in… — Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This (liberation) isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Gordon Nelson is not only my friend, he's my mentor. He is a master craftsman with unique experience, and an approach to… — Nick Arrojo Copy Share Image
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within… — Eric Allen Copy Share Image
When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
“Even cavemen who could barely think, they must have seen it, that sky; and tribal people bossed around by their village chiefs;… — Rose Rosetree Copy Share Image
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