The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The world will continue to make life difficult until you stop choosing the easy path every time. - Dharma ” — Sophie McKeand Copy Share Image
If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. — Anthony de Mello 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
“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism,… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“They were the good old days. Don't give up hope in the bad new days, which will become the good old days.… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the… — David Loy Copy Share Image
“ Machik thus maintains that what is conventionally referred to as a "god" is in fact the positive nature of reflexive awareness… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. — Yuanwu Keqin Copy Share Image
Kundalini is almost a misleading word, unless you define it as broadly as I do. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism has helped me understand my defects and has given me the tools to combat them. — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care. — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“One should plan for spiritual enlightenment. At least bring a flashlight.” — Lia Hills Copy Share Image
If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image