When you go into the other worlds, when you go into the luminous dimensions, it's very different than here. You really have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Although contemplating the nature of the body highlights its less attractive features, the purpose of the exercise is not to demonize the… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The preservation of Buddhism is preserving your own internal heart. If Tibetans became terrorists they might win back Tibet, but Buddhism would… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“she could only hope these visitors from the stars were as benign and enlightened as the British explorers who landed upon heathen… — Samuel Peralta Copy Share Image
“We are not interested in developing eternity or immortality, or in preventing being sick or being born. We are interested in doing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Each of our contemporary scholars, nevertheless, adheres to one school of the (above mentioned) teachings. And there are some (even) among the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
“To know others is wisdom; To know yourself is enlightenment; To master others requires force; To master yourself requires true strength.” — Lao-Tzu Copy Share Image
The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. .… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“For you to reach a state of creative enlightenment, you must wage war on yourself, and start working. Only then will inspiration… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way,… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
“We Vietnamese have two philosophies to sustain us. The Confucian tells us how to behave when fate grants us peace and order.… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
