Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Taoist (as well as Buddhist) science therefore seeks the eternal, universal light of consciousness that lies hidden like a 'shining pearl' in… — Paul Reid Copy Share Image
“Your body and my body are both totally made up of and dependent upon the elements of the earth—the water, the air,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Religion (dharma) means to give happiness in any way to any living being. And to hurt any living being in any way… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things… — Guo Guangchang Copy Share Image
As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps, all difficulties, should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
