I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in the definition of Religion is there a mandate for religions to self-challenge or revamp their theological positions based on new… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow.… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown the path to awareness. Along that path is where one discovers that he is truly born. Once… — VD Copy Share Image
In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein… — Josei Toda Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be truly born. When one is born, one is able to then… — VD Copy Share Image
Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Charles Tavis knows what James Incandenza could not have cared about less: the key to the successful administration of a top-level junior… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness. (Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)” — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
