Enlightenment will show you that there are no greener pastures. The grass beneath your feet is just as green. — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is a gift. Understanding is a prize. Wisdom is a blessing. Enlightenment is your reward.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment; enlightenment is the way.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t have intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ are abuddha (do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to… — Ron Starbuck Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How can a lama say enlightenment is for all beings, yet when he sees me, a woman, he does not give me… — Perri Birney Copy Share Image
“But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“To take good care of ourselves, we must go back and take care of the wounded child inside of us. You have… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“The Buddhist teachings move along a graduated path: first the stages of calm abiding and then the stages of deep insight. Through… — Ogyen Trinley Dorje Copy Share Image
Buddha saw dead, victims and elders then he assumed that to have life is to suffer. In contrast, 21 century A.D, I… — Voeun Tivea Copy Share Image
“We have been accustomed to look to the East -to Mesopotamia and Babylonia- for the beginning of Greek enlightenment, but probably when… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“If you want the shortest version of my answer to the question of why Buddhism is true, it's this: Because we are… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“The vow is a consecrated agreement between us and the laws of the universe. In a Buddhist sense, the sanctity of a… — Darren Littlejohn Copy Share Image
We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after… — Joel Murray Copy Share Image
What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins. — John Welwood Copy Share Image
The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Soyen Shaku saw America as a natural place for the dharma to grow and evolve.” — Rick Fields Copy Share Image
When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is more about an ethic and philosophy than an actual religion.” — Ed Hindson Copy Share Image
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower! — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image