You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“Kuan Yin looks very traditional. Her hands are folded together. The thick cloth of her costume is folded perfectly," describes Lena. "Just… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddhists had a helpful analogy here. Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's exodus from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another person..'Dare… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted?… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas… — Mariko Mori Copy Share Image
“Buddha was not a Buddhist. Jesus was not a Christian. Muhammad was not a Muslim. They were teachers who taught Love…Love was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The first words that are read by seekers of enlightenment in the secret, gong-banging, yeti-haunted valleys near the hub of the world,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a… — Andy Wachowski Copy Share Image
“I think at times such as when we are facing a difficult situation we have an opportunity to really internalize the teachings… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Life's Journeys Inward seeking moves towards being-time Outward seeking journies among life's ornaments” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
“Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of lease resistance.” — Brian Coletta Copy Share Image
“Dissociation (being split-off from one’s deepest truth) mimics enlightenment – but it isn’t enlightenment. People who are dissociated live in great peace.… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
“Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
