“Change happens for you the moment you want something more than you fear it.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment, broadly construed, is to be undeluded about how the world is and how best to live.” — Thomas W. Clark Copy Share Image
“No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope. — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
“Live your life by the light of day. Enlightenment lurks not in the shadows of the night.” — Thomas Zman Copy Share Image
“It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.” — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Being sad is a state of distress, being happy is a state of excitement, being blissful is a state of enlightenment. Have… — Nagaraj Copy Share Image
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches… — Hsuan Hua Copy Share Image
The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
"Bhagavad Gita" is an examination of consciousness and the desire of human beings and the quest that we have as human beings… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Human consciousness is a law of nature. Humankind’s inherent intelligence is an indivisible component inalterably linked to the whole beatitude of the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will… — Buddha Copy Share Image
People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. — Vic Braden Copy Share Image
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice. — Dogen Copy Share Image
How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I believe I was at the peak of my enlightenment when I use to say you want fries with that. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind. — Charles W. Field Copy Share Image
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image