Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight. — Lew Welch Copy Share Image
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You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
Some of Buddhist texts say that, in the moment after you die, you think of New Jersey and you go to New… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me for… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“REFUTATION OF INCOMPLETE AND SUPERFICIAL (DOCTRINE)[FN#321] There are in the Buddhist doctrines, to state briefly, the five grades (of development), beginning with… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The differences between religions are only differences involving the pathways that lead toward the practice of directly experiencing higher levels of perception… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“I cast myself across the land in search of enlightenment, and here is what I found: that matter and energy are one… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth… — Soko Morinaga Copy Share Image
The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“the Buddha, aged seventy-two, thought it was high time to preach his long-cherished doctrine that all sentient beings can attain to Supreme… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“what Tibetan Buddhists call “the inability to bear the sight of another’s sorrow,” so that we feel it almost as intensely as… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
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“The trying to do something is in itself enlightenment. When we are in difficulty or distress, there we have enlightenment.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
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Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
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