“Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
“Seeing a problem clearly does not prevent you from taking action, he explained. Acceptance is not passivity. Sometimes we are justifiably displeased.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“…I told Jack I had nothing to say about his vision of God. I couldn’t believe in God myself. In his next… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers -… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never… — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
You can experience ecstasy in any dimension and at any time. Enlightenment is not related to where your physical or astral body… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical… — RZA Copy Share Image
Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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