In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. We do what we want to do, until… — Steve Mitskavich Copy Share Image
It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“In the early Buddhist texts, the continuity of consciousness is likened to a flame that lights a candle, though nothing is transmitted… — Karma Lekshe Tsomo Copy Share Image
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“During the Reformation and the Enlightenment, nature came to be understood in a mechanistic sense as bereft of any capacity for divine… — Tina Beattie Copy Share Image
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am not nothing but this moment in the flow of life. This flow of life is not in… — Kiyozawa Manshi 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
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of… — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As Tibetan Buddhists remind us, “If we take care of the minutes and moments, the hours and days will take care of… — Todd Kashdan Copy Share Image
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go to a power spot, and you think negative or depressing thoughts they tend to grow stronger. Whereas, if you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
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