Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“You can appreciate your life, even if it is an imperfect situation. Perhaps your apartment is run down and your furniture is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment depends to a large extent on believing that you are born for Freedom in this lifetime, and that it is available… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a joke, Rora said. Mujo wakes up one day, after a long night of drinking, and asks himself… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“In bidding for popular support and competing with other cults as a parallel religion, the sangha had been losing ground throughout India… — John Keay Copy Share Image
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Nan Fink Gefen, a Jewish meditation teacher and author of an introduction to Jewish meditation, identifies three major sources of contemporary Jewish… — Rifat Sonsino Copy Share Image
When I was little, my parents belonged to a cult, a big Buddhist sect called Soka Gakkai. I didn't have any particular… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, the word has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Buddhists say that thoughts are like drops of water on the brain; when you reinforce the same thought, it will etch a… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“All of us must go through the dance of searching out the answers for enlightenment about God. Sometimes all we get are… — Nancy Phippen Browne Copy Share Image
“A koan is like a riddle that’s supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism. For my answer, I wrote about… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Let me say (a few words) about this doctrine by way of criticism. So many Kalpas we spent never meeting with this… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man's freedom,… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or “enlightenment… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The earth is alive. There are places on the earth that are very powerful. Meaning that on another dimensional level, there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The scientific revolution was part of a wider intellectual revolution, the Enlightenment, which also brought progress in other fields, especially moral and… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“Buddha, but you shortened it. The original saying is, ‘To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we… — Ruby Lionsdrake Copy Share Image
“[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.] And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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