Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“. . . how could I protect myself? I had the Viking's scabbard, but not the sword; I had the Buddhist's robe,… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to… — Ron Starbuck Copy Share Image
Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom;… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Buddhism teaches us to be tolerant and accepting, but tolerance does NOT mean accepting what is harmful.” — Timber Hawkeye Copy Share Image
“Religion [Dharma] means to do good for others and non-religion [Adharma] means to hurt others. This is referred to as religion-nonreligion [Dharma-Adharma].… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Interpreters package and then sell, rent, or impose upon us artificially flavored illusions of truth, salvation, enlightenment, and happiness that are built… — Doug Rose Copy Share Image
You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The crux of the second noble truth is not what you want, but the very fact that you want.” — Andrew Olendzki Copy Share Image
Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
“Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated, and aimless young… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The reality of nature, the reality of life is oneness. But we humans have such a strong egotistic nature. We are the… — Gyomay M Kubose Copy Share Image
For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily. — Frederick Lenz 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
When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image