“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope. — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Live your life by the light of day. Enlightenment lurks not in the shadows of the night.” — Thomas Zman Copy Share Image
“Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown a path to awareness. Along that path is where we are truly born. When we choose to… — VD Copy Share Image
Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Since Buddhist studies and practices are designed to influence our most ingrained habitual tendencies, they generally represent processes that naturally require repeated… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Chöd is conventionally and misleadingly seen as analogous to, if not derived from, shamanic initiatory dismemberment visions, as well as dualistic anti-body… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
“[T]he changing, functional, causal, and conditioned world, present to ordinary sensory and mental experience, was what was ultimately real. To be real… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“There’s a story about a couple of Zen Buddhist monks. One day they leave the monastery and walk into town to buy… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the emancipation of man from a state of self-imposed tutelage... of incapacity to use his own intelligence without external guidance.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Sugar is for the body as narcissism is for the soul. Both pleasures kill.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Buddha has great compassion that is completely impartial, embracing all living beings without discrimination.” — Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment and tolerance, it would seem, have little to do with being lettered or unlettered. His” — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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