Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Its not my job to shove enlightenment up people's asses, but some days I get stuck volunteering to do it. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains,” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract in 1762. A generation of crusading… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, the word has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that… — Brad Warner 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
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Crucial to how we feel is being aware of how we are feeling in the moment. The sine qua non of that… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t have intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ are abuddha (do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist,… — Hafez Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate person touches a chord in us that resonates with some of our deepest yearnings. People flock to such individuals,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“And he is not at an age right for renunciation; he has not even entered the stage of the householder, as befits… — Bāṇabhaṭṭa Copy Share Image
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
