With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown a path to awareness. Along that path is where one discovers that he is truly born. By… — VD Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Seeing a problem clearly does not prevent you from taking action, he explained. Acceptance is not passivity. Sometimes we are justifiably displeased.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d'etat in 1793. Just as… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One age cannot bind itself, and thus conspire, to place a succeeding one in a condition whereby it would be impossible for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, all of mankind’s disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were,… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant,… — Beth Johnson Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
