Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don't… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go. — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused; otherwise, you get very spaced out. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise,… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“One of the basic ideas of the evangelical movement in the early nineteenth century was that people could help themselves. Rather than… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Of course balance is the key to enlightenment and no one can be perfect all the time.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
“To be rejected by a freemason, buddhist, christian or rosicrucian feels like being rejected by children in a kindergarten. Many, but not… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our… — Dhammananda Bhikkhuni Copy Share Image
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Life is a groundless ground: no sooner does it appear, than it disappears, only to renew itself, then immediately break up and… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If you can ,be a Jesus Christ.But never be a Christian.If you can,be a Buddha.But never be a Buddhist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nan Fink Gefen, a Jewish meditation teacher and author of an introduction to Jewish meditation, identifies three major sources of contemporary Jewish… — Rifat Sonsino Copy Share Image
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