Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Even when we feel like we have found theological common ground—like Abraham as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims—we quickly discover… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
We go outside, on a clear, cold night. We see millions of stars all over the place, bright and beautiful, each one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for… — Michael Eggleston Copy Share Image
“But compared with much of the rest of the world, Europe is a beacon of enlightenment. Among the many amazing and depressing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was - and remains - the only public… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“our nature is the mind. and the mind is our nature.this nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. buddhas… — bodhidharma Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me? — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“As beings possessing reason, men “are all equal, and equals can have no right over each other,” wrote seventeenth-century English politician Algernon… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“That which takes one away from religion (dharma) is bad company (kusang).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Unlike some of my other dharma brothers who got names that were very long and obscure, and nobody could remember or pronounce,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
