Buddhism Quotes · Page 28

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.

— Frederick Lenz

Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

“To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.”

— Allan Lokos

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

— Frederick Lenz

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

— Frederick Lenz

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.

— Jack Handey

“Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.”

— Sharon Salzberg

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake…

— Frederick Lenz

It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have…

— Frederick Lenz

“It is an essential tenet of Buddhism that we can begin to change the world by first changing how we look at…

— Greg Boyle

To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them…

— Frederick Lenz

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster…

— Rufus Wainwright

We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a…

— Frederick Lenz

Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say…

— Nia Long

“There are five major religions formally recognized today: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Each is absolutlely certain that they know for…

— Jim Vuksic

I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the…

— Mazie Hirono

“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength…

— Darrell Calkins

Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't…

— Andrew Cohen

Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a…

— Rajneesh

Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on…

— Paul Brunton

As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the…

— Jacob Needleman

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to…

— Pico Iyer

“All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy,…

— Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

— George Monbiot

Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.

— Frederick Lenz

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

— Frederick Lenz

The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.

— Frederick Lenz

“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.”

— Gautama Buddha

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

— Dogen

“Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance”

— Brian Coletta

Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

— Frederick Lenz

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

— Frederick Lenz

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

— Frederick Lenz

Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction.

— Frederick Lenz

“The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”

— Robert Thurman

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

— Frederick Lenz

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

— Sharon Salzberg