The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The trying to do something is in itself enlightenment. When we are in difficulty or distress, there we have enlightenment.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however,… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma. — Anagarika Dharmapala Copy Share Image
Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Many people who have an interest in politics feel they should proclaim—loudly, and at any given time—what their views are and why… — Victoria Stoklasa Copy Share Image
I really like the Buddhist philosophy but that doesn't mean that I am of the religion. — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott Copy Share Image
You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“By the time you have a child and realise that you had a big void in you devoid of fatherly love and… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. “Man is born free but… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't be a fool to hold a candle to enlighten the path of others in order to burn your own fingers. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The parable of the gem in the robe is very short, only one paragraph long in the Murano translation. Yet in spite… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
