Buddhism Quotes · Page 38

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

— Frederick Lenz

Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

— Frederick Lenz

“Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance”

— Brian Coletta

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

— Frederick Lenz

“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”

— Robert Thurman

Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

“To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.”

— Allan Lokos

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

— Frederick Lenz

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe-…

— Brad Warner

The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some…

— James Q. Wilson

“Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment. Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you…

— Toba Beta

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining…

— Dalai Lama

You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and…

— Pearl Cleage

The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night. Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with…

— Frederick Lenz

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view…

— Frederick Lenz

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions…

— Theaster Gates

“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil…

— Terry Pratchett

“When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the…

— T. Scott McLeod

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front…

— Natalie Angier

“10. Idealism is a Potent Medicine for Self-created Mental Disease. In so far as Buddhist idealism refers to the world of sense,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage…

— Katha Pollitt

“Quotes By Transcendologist Kurt Kawohl 1941 - If the medieval practices and the medieval beliefs of Christianity, Judaism and Islam that are…

— Kurt Kawohl

“Touch ultimate emptiness, Hold steady and still. All things work together: I have watched them reverting, And have seen how they flourish…

— Lao Tzu

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

— George Monbiot

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.

— Jack Handey

“Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

— Frederick Lenz

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

— Frederick Lenz

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

— Frederick Lenz

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

— Frederick Lenz

Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

— Nikhil Saluja

“A million faces of Buddha smiled at the night's futile attempt to lull the Awakened One into an ocean of dreams.”

— Lidija Stankovikj

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

— Umberto Eco

“Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish”

— Chris Murray

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.

— Frederick Lenz

If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.

— Tenzin Palmo

Dear ¤Buddha, I am absent this morning. Can you thinking with me how my day is going to look?

— Ojale Hukom

“To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.”

— Sharon Salzberg