Buddhism Quotes · Page 191

Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly…

— Frederick Lenz

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

— Frederick Lenz

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the…

— D.T. Suzuki

When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the…

— Frederick Lenz

Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something…

— Frederick Lenz

Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your…

— Frederick Lenz

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

— Pema Chodron

“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the…

— Victor Hugo

“Despite an ever increasing diversity when it comes to yoga brands, there are only four major paths in yoga and they have…

— Gudjon Bergmann

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

— Hector Hugh Munro

“The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. Most Christians did not imitate…

— Yuval Noah Harari

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist…

— M. Scott Peck

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently. Do what the Buddhists…

— Morrie Schwartz

“Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his…

— Peter Matthiessen

“consider," replies the geomancer, "--adam and eve ate fruit from a tree, and were enlighten'd. the buddha sat beneath a tree, and…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once pointed out, “If you put one hundred percent of your heart into facing yourself,…

— Lodro Rinzler

At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you…

— Frederick Lenz

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

— Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness opposes judgment, conceptualization, words, language, reason, logic, knowledge, understanding, science, philosophy, mathematics, history, intellectualism, learning from the past and planning for…

— Thomas Stark

“Getting to the destination you desire involves walking in the right direction. You can't board a jet to enlightenment, and thank God…

— Natalie Pace

Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just…

— Frederick Lenz

“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightning.”

— John Green

“The path to enlightenment is not a path. It is a realization that you are already the goal.”

— Susan Shumsky