When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“In its dream of the triumph of reason and science, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century failed in its hope of sweeping… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?" Benedict” — Tricia Walker 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
Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Zen has been called the "religion before religion," which is to say that anyone can practice, including those committed to another faith.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and… — Frederick Lenz 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
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that. — Frederick Lenz 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
“When you make ‘adjustments’ with everyone, that indeed is the highest of all religion (dharma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If we can unify the apparent duality between the great uncontrollable energy and the natural wisdom of our monkey mind, if we… — Oeset Drakir Copy Share Image
Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The trick to being happy is getting beyond the body and the astral realms. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Our Butkara ruins were a magical place to play hide-and-seek. Once some foreign archaeologists arrived to do some work there and told… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I've learned much from the land of many gods and many ways to worship. From Buddhism the power to begin to manage… — Sarah Macdonald Copy Share Image
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Reigns of terror are thus the bastard child of the Enlightenment. Terror in the name of utopian ideals would rise again and… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
