Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future?… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . . — E. J. Gold Copy Share Image
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In the end, all any of these religions aim to do is give us hope. The main difference with Buddhism is that… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Venetia thought of dogs as important enablers on our paths of individual enlightenment. This could manifest itself as our own personal spiritual… — Christian Howell Copy Share Image
“For Buddhists, to experience Awakening is to experience the interconnectedness that makes us all one. For Christians, to experience the Divine as… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You see in Islam, you see in Christianity, you see in Africa, in different religions, in Buddhism and Hinduism, there is a… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“O keeper of righteous vows, remember this, Whenever dharma is in decline, Or there is an upsurge of adharma; The Sacred Feminine… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state… — Frederick Lenz 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
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Success does not necessarily create happiness. I could take you on a tour of West Lost Angeles. You would be surprised that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
