Buddhism Quotes · Page 52

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

— Frederick Lenz

In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.”

— T. Scott McLeod

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

— Gautama Buddha

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

— Goldie Hawn

“Contradictory actions is non-religion [adharma] and non-contradictory actions is religion [dharma].”

— Dada Bhagwan

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

— Christopher Moore

If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be…

— Frederick Lenz

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the…

— Frederick Lenz

You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los…

— Frederick Lenz

Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and…

— Frederick Lenz

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is…

— Frederick Lenz

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or…

— Frederick Lenz

Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private…

— Frederick Lenz

All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access…

— Frederick Lenz

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of…

— Mary Karr

You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to…

— Joyce DiDonato

“The Dalai Lama began by saying it’s not possible for everyone to be a Christian or a Buddhist. “There’s no other choice…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“To be rejected by a freemason, buddhist, christian or rosicrucian feels like being rejected by children in a kindergarten. Many, but not…

— Robin Sacredfire

Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor…

— Rajneesh

“What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

“If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman,…

— Rita M. Gross

“Actively, we are motivated by the never-ending desires of the self. We are compelled to pursue whatever the self imagines will satisfy…

— Dharma Publishing

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

— Rajneesh

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

— Sogyal Rinpoche

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to…

— Frederick Lenz

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

— Frederick Lenz

Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

— Frederick Lenz

If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

— Duncan Sheik

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

— Harry Carpenter

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

— Steven Cojocaru

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

— Frederick Lenz

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

— Sharon Salzberg