Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the… — Bodo Balsys Copy Share Image
You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating. — 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
The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Since beginners can only remain in contact with the object of observation for short periods, initially one should meditate in brief sessions… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe I was at the peak of my enlightenment when I use to say you want fries with that. — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It teaches only that you may become a vehicle of love and communication through this process of enlightenment. Now,” — Master Teacher Copy Share Image
Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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