Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God, — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha Gautama Buddha realized, balance is the key to enlightenment.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“That which gives result is religion (dharma). That which pushes away illusion (wrong belief) is religion. That which reduces or destroys illusion… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It seems that, without clarity and honesty, we don't progress. We just stay stuck in the same vicious cycle. But honesty without… — Pema Chodran Copy Share Image
“LEARNING HOW to be kind to ourselves is important. When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön warns against what she insightfully terms “idiot compassion”—using kindness to avoid conflict when a resounding “no” is required.… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
“The Buddhists were right, the Hindus were right, the Muslims were right, and so were the Jews. Whenever someone follows the path… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
