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
