Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“So when we think about the future, how to build a healthy humanity, we really have to think about how we create… — Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“We’ll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge with tiny wristwatches on their wings: our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas” — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
“The first principle is that the business should be successful: that it should make money. There is a belief prevalent in America… — Geshe Michael Roach Copy Share Image
I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This moment is not life waiting to happen, goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken, connections waiting to be… — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I plan to make the case that we need to move beyond religion if we want to continue the kind of remarkable… — Alan Jeskin Copy Share Image
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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