None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn’t control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Form is emptiness", the Buddhists teach, but form is also form. I would never be able to approach the emptiness of form… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the… — Dosung Yoo Copy Share Image
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Meditation is practiced by traditions all over the world. It is not a Buddhist practice per se, or even a religious practice,… — Lodro Rinzler Copy Share Image
This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering,… — Jack Kornfield 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
What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works… — Frederick Lenz 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
This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious battle, today's children of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, “respond” rather than simply “react.”… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped—body, mind, all states, all things—everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“And don’t feel like you’re committing a felony-level violation of Buddhist dogma just because you think of yourself as being a self.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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