We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated, and aimless young… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief;… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
“A general summing up, such as this, is highly characteristic of the old Oriental mode of approach to a religious and philosophical… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“When you walked through a park, the immersive world that surrounded you was something that existed inside your own brain as a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?” Ellie asked on their way to have dinner with the Abbot. “Their position seems to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Material success is a way of tightening up your life so that you can move into higher planes of attention. You should… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Be the monarch of your life and sign the decree to exile suffering and call back from all points of the universe… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
