Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity. — Jarome Iginla Copy Share Image
If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
“I have had great enlightenment from the writings of St. John of the Cross. When I was between seventeen and eighteen, they… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? — Gautama Buddha 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
“To discover a metaphysical relationship between Quality and the Buddha at some mountaintop of personal experience is very spectacular. And very unimportant.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image