Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it. — Donovan Copy Share Image
We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“…When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“book and magazine publishers aren’t in the business of enlightenment. They’re in the business of selling books and magazines, not truth, and… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary… — 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
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring… — John Piper Copy Share Image
People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose. A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.” — Sal Martinez Copy Share Image
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
