You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In brief, what Centrists refute is any notion of real or absolute existence or an intrinsic nature that is attributed to any… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“According to Howard, “this dialectic between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, between the individual and the tribe, was to pervade, and to a large… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Although a democratic government is founded upon a very simple and natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled… — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions,… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our… — Dhammananda Bhikkhuni Copy Share Image
We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot… — George Patterson Copy Share Image
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
