“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present;… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Premodern traditions of knowledge such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism asserted that everything that is important to know about the world… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Two of Epicurus’s early influences, Democritus and Pyrrho, had actually journeyed all the way to what is now India, where they had… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“He invited the Indian scholar Paramartha to come and set up a Translation Bureau for Buddhist texts, and the scholar stayed for… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
We seek to unify ourselves with the endless light of truth, of God, of nirvana. We recognize the infinite playing through all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way,… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
When you live in a psychic state of mind, you are happy. You don't have to do anything. Life is always beautiful,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Not until you succeed in being really flexible and soft, can you become really strong and forceful. —Zen Buddhist proverb” — Ulrica Norberg Copy Share Image
If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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