“If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“These new gurus even wrote text about what it was they were teaching, but the true meaning, power and role of the… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It’s very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it’s not about awakening, they should change the… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“He’d dive deeper and deeper into the calming depths of the sea, safe from the storms on the surface. And when he… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
You don't want to know the Truth, you want to know the truth as you understand it. This is the greatest barrier… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite definitions of enlightenment comes from a Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello, who passed away some years ago.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Life is only meaningless if we fail to make a resolute effort at achieving bliss, attaining the active state of oneness that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Service is an expression of inner growth and development, It is the muscle-building of virtues. It is the barometer of inner development… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others, just listen to your mind. You don't have to go… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything… — Cynthia Occelli Copy Share Image
“Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
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