Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Study the scriptures for additional enlightenment on how to be more happy and less frustrated in what only too often is at… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity,… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Copy Share Image
“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being… — Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
And so I pray like I'm a Pentecostal, Sufi, Buddhist, strict agnostic. Hoping one will hit it's target, take another sip of… — Jean Grae Copy Share Image
Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and… — Buddha Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died. ” — Robert Inchausti Copy Share Image
When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect… — Habib Umar bin Hafiz Copy Share Image
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Laos is a deeply Buddhist country, and my visit included a traditional Tak Bat ceremony, in which you get up at sunrise… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable… — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future?… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . . — E. J. Gold Copy Share Image
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
