The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Buddhism believes that there is an inseparable link between the living things. It also emphasizes on understanding the continuous flow of nature.” — HTeBooks Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
The fountain of information lies at your fingertips and is accessible anywhere at anytime and schools need to emphasize this. We are… — Christopher Myers Copy Share Image
“To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is nothing more than moments of self-awareness. Don’t let cultural spiritual hierarchy intimidate you into the mindset of unworthiness. You are… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Knowing it, you know the very heartbeat of existence. Knowing it, you have known all that is worth knowing, and you have… — Osho Copy Share Image
Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“There are many fishes in the sea and then there are a few beautiful swishy mermaids. Me?! No, I'm not the fish… — Himanjali Singh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Therefore, to get Enlightened we have to believe that all beings are Buddha-natured—that is, absolutely good-natured in the sense that transcends the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart. By simply relaxing… — Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Copy Share Image
“I thought I lived in a hostile world where everything feeds on everything, but now I know that I’m an immortal being… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is… — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Understand that the following Enlightenment Affirmation can be said with God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Universe, Krishna, Yahweh, or Goddess. They are all… — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“How can I know these trees, how can I know you, how can I know the other if I myself am unknown… — Osho Copy Share Image
I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
