Don't be a fool to hold a candle to enlighten the path of others in order to burn your own fingers. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Obsessing over details and bringing a Buddhist level of focus to a narrow assortment of offerings sets Apple apart from its competitors.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Lord Krishna says, “Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself. I am born in age after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Zen Buddhism is the foundation for much of the meaning in bonsai. In fact, many myths associate the first bonsai trees with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I've learned much from the land of many gods and many ways to worship. From Buddhism the power to begin to manage… — Sarah Macdonald Copy Share Image
“A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“4. The Third Step in the Mental Training. To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, which, in a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Knowledge flourishes where words of eminent men empower the cognition of young minds with enlightenment.” — Stephen TSJ Copy Share Image
“While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image