Buddhism Quotes · Page 35

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

— Frederick Lenz

Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.

— Frederick Lenz

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

— Frederick Lenz

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

— Bodhidharma

“You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

— Rajneesh

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.

— Sakyong Mipham

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

— Frederick Lenz

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

— Frederick Lenz

If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in…

— Frederick Lenz

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the…

— Gautama Buddha

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call…

— Frederick Lenz

Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things…

— Frederick Lenz

“Most difficult is the adharma (non-religion, to do what is unrighteous), the least difficult is dharma (religion, to do what is righteous)…

— Dada Bhagwan

The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to…

— Frederick Lenz

“There was once a lady who was arrogant and proud. Determined to attain enlightenment, she asked all the authorities how to go…

— Pema Chödrön

“Who, pray tell, is for leaving the naked unclothed and the hungry without food? Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism advocated caring for…

— Dennis Prager

“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad…

— Stephen Batchelor

The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and…

— Tenzin Palmo

“The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice…

— Anālayo

“Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do with is nothing.…

— Tom Robbins

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. Most Christians did not imitate…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

— Terence McKenna

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

— Gangaji

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

— Gore Vidal

It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

— Adyashanti

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

— Frederick Lenz

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.

— Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus”

— Allan Rufus

Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.

— Frederick Lenz

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

— Gautama Buddha

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

— Frederick Lenz

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

— Noam Chomsky

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.

— Laozi

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

— Gelek Rimpoche

“Buddha taught that we should not merely not be evil, but that we should be positively good.”

— Henry Steel Olcott

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

— Laozi