A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious battle, today's children of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
You only find your Teacher once in many lifetimes. Never be afraid to see them and meditate with them. Your Teacher always… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“And don’t feel like you’re committing a felony-level violation of Buddhist dogma just because you think of yourself as being a self.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. — Frederick Lenz 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
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“…Some timeless time later, dreamlike images began to emerge, the solar system, the Earth…the last to emerge was the sense of my… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?'… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current… — Donna Quesada Copy Share Image
“Treta yuga, when the bull of dharma stands on three legs. Krishna’s story takes place in a later, third quarter of the… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image