Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Imperialism has not allowed us to achieve historical normality,’ Octavio Paz lamented in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). Paz was surveying the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance — U Thant Copy Share Image
To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the… — Dogen 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
The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is quite reasonable that Zenists distinguish supernatural powers from spiritual uplifting, the former an acquirement of Devas, or of Asuras, or… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I approached Buddhism the way I approach almost everything. I read books about it. Even though, at first, I didn't understand much… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“But, nevertheless, if there is even the slightest recognition, liberation is easy. Should you ask why this is so—it is because once… — Karma-glin-pa Copy Share Image
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs, for instance, adopted the Zen Buddhist concept of “beginner’s mind,” the ability to see a situation as if for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
“... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and… — Sid Brown Copy Share Image
Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Not until you succeed in being really flexible and soft, can you become really strong and forceful. —Zen Buddhist proverb” — Ulrica Norberg Copy Share Image
What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within -… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around.… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism. — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
