In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We Vietnamese have two philosophies to sustain us. The Confucian tells us how to behave when fate grants us peace and order.… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“4. Mahayana Doctrine of the Nihilists. This doctrine disproves (both) the Mahayana and the Hinayana doctrines above mentioned that adhere to Dharma-laksana,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“The mind has no tools to enter the unconscious dimensions. Only if you are outside of the mind you can look at… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-traumatic cost. Only such… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“So once these needs are fulfilled, nobody is going to value these things. If you are well-fed, peaceful, blissful, happy, well-loved, with… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. We do what we want to do, until… — Steve Mitskavich Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may… — James Allen Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
