If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm a Buddhist or anything, but I think we've all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be… — Osamu Tezuka Copy Share Image
“We attach to anything or anybody because we think that they make us happy. We attach to the happiness so much. On… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Kant is sometimes considered to be an advocate of reason. Kant was in favor of science, it is argued. He emphasized the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Children, we can grow spiritually only if we see the guru as the manifestation of God. We should not accept anyone as… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“No disrespect to the Buddha is intended. If there was a Buddha and he was enlightened, then it’s Buddhism that insults his… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We have to know what is Buddhadharma and what is not Buddhadharma. It needn't go on forever. You don't have to spend… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“We are like waves in the ocean, each with a unique character and quality on the surface, but deep down we are… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Every piece of clutter you dissolve back into clear light allows your higher inner blueprint, your soul’s destiny, to translate fluidly and… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
“Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where… — Machik Labdrön Copy Share Image
“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation… — Tulku Urgyen Copy Share Image
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life. — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be re-born. Being re-born, one is able to let go of suffering… — VD Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“In your light, I see my shadows. So please, know that if I go away, it won't be your fault. It would… — Ramesh Sood Copy Share Image
We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
