No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Davie's hostility to sectarianism, and to religious 'fanaticism', was perhaps part of his appeal. He acknowledged the legacy of Calvinism in his… — Robert D. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“What stops artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others) is dharma (Religion of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“In the ancient Indian Upanishads, the answer to the question “Who am I?” is “Tat tvam asi.” This succinct Sanskrit sentence means… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled… — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You can't be successful if you are good at hiding yourself! Be success minded; think about uncovering what you know, what you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
“For Buddhists, to experience Awakening is to experience the interconnectedness that makes us all one. For Christians, to experience the Divine as… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today,… — Kumar Sangakkara Copy Share Image
“He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Buddhists say that thoughts are like drops of water on the brain; when you reinforce the same thought, it will etch a… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, “respond” rather than simply “react.”… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
