The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“From The Twelve Enlightenments Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A true experience of prajna corresponds to “enlightenment” or liberation—not change, but transformation—a profound vision of his identity with universal life, past,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here...… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Taoist (as well as Buddhist) science therefore seeks the eternal, universal light of consciousness that lies hidden like a 'shining pearl' in… — Paul Reid Copy Share Image
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Things can get tough out there. I am in no way saying life is easy and we should breeze through it like… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“That is why, in order to arrive at a suitable message for the coming millennium, Buddhism has reached clear back to its… — Clark Strand Copy Share Image
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“In the early Buddhist texts, the continuity of consciousness is likened to a flame that lights a candle, though nothing is transmitted… — Karma Lekshe Tsomo Copy Share Image
I know that Arnold Toynby, the great historian, said he had always hoped the religions of the world would evolve until they… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“During the Reformation and the Enlightenment, nature came to be understood in a mechanistic sense as bereft of any capacity for divine… — Tina Beattie Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Question : BELOVED MASTER, SHOULD ONE TRY TO BE RICH OR NOT? Osho : A rich life is something inner. And I… — Osho Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“If a teacher or a so-called guru offers you enlightenment, tells you he has all the answers, claims his way is the… — karma yeshe rabgye Copy Share Image
When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind… — David C. Downing Copy Share Image
