You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
What fun is life if it's taken so seriously, and what fun is yoga and the search for enlightenment if we are… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.” — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Life remains what it is--deathless and unbound. We shall all meet again. Know what you are, and be free. The best counsel… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Buddhism offers a basic challenge to this cultural worldview. The Buddha taught that this human birth is a precious gift because it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“The extraction of discrete parts of Chöd teachings from their broader philosophical contexts is symptomatic of how Chöd has been incorporated into… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
“That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what‘s important.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The teachings of the Buddha could be summarized in four short sentences. ... [The Buddha] said ... The bad things, don't do… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not a higher way to be. It is just experience. All humanity is enlightened. We are all at different parts… — Allura Eshmun Copy Share Image
True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not Religion, Enlightenment is Realism.People project or confuse religious dogma with The Awakening It is What it is” — johnjwillard Copy Share Image
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual,… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“Where Krishna yokes the mind and Arjuna bears the bow, there is always fortune, success, dominion, stability, and law. That is my… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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