What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones,… — Ye Xiaowen Copy Share Image
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice. — Dogen Copy Share Image
Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling,… — Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel Dakini Power Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Copy Share Image
At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never… — Gabriel Shaw Copy Share Image
When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better.… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
I encourage you to make money and to become enlightened. The two are not necessarily different. Have fun with whatever you do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“so Enlightenment philosophers developed a new form of theism, based entirely on reason and Newtonian science, which they called Deism.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I'm a Buddhist. You might have a Christian obligation to catch pneumonia while you sit for two and a half hours listening… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“One of the positive side-effects of maintaining a very high degree of awareness of death is that it will prepare the individual… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
