I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Buddha Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our matching black outfits - even Phoebe wears dark colors - convince him that we are lesbian Buddhists” — Helen Smith Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“Historically, Buddhist monks hoping to detach themselves from lust and curb their desire for permanence would meditate on the form of a… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
'Every facet of our lives should be directed towards the goal of better understanding of ourselves and our relationship to each other,… — Nita Siegman Copy Share Image
All beings have lived and died and been reborn countless times. Over and over again they have experienced the indescribable Clear Light.… — Padmasambhava Copy Share Image
“Humans have the choice of being reborn, While they have no conscious memory when the're reborn, they tend to reconnect with the… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image