There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People can be free from suffering if people give up selfish desires for power, wealth, and pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism… — Jack White Copy Share Image
For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Without the pieces there can be no whole and without the whole the pieces have no place. What the hell does that… — Bryan Oftedahl Copy Share Image
When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we give up to openmindedness , we move away from pushing into allowing, from insecure to secure, from seeking approval to… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image