Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
“A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.” — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The first hour after birth we see the world as it is. It takes the rest of our life to journey back… — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A brick could be placed down on the first step on the path to enlightenment.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness,… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
“it became one of the characteristics of Zen monks that they would never approach rulers and statesmen for the sake of worldly… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“There are many Arjunas in Kalyuga; they are focused, bright, hard-working, loving, righteous young men who want to change the world. Their… — Vivek Narayan Sharma Copy Share Image
Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Nan Fink Gefen, a Jewish meditation teacher and author of an introduction to Jewish meditation, identifies three major sources of contemporary Jewish… — Rifat Sonsino Copy Share Image
Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, the word has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Any religious expression of truth, however bizzare or uncouth, is more sufficing than any secular one, however elegant and intellectually brilliant. Animistic… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Philosophical enlightenment, musical composition, writing and scientific observation keep me sane. - Johnny Luckett — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“in the pursuit of knowledge: everyday something is added. in the pursuit of enlightenment: everyday something is dropped.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“If all it took to become enlightened were to sit and meditate, then all frogs would be Buddhas.” — Sengai Copy Share Image
“Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“What does the satsang (spiritual discourse) also ultimately state? Do not 'do'. Just keep Seeing the effect that unfolds.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas. — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image