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
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses. For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“All of us must go through the dance of searching out the answers for enlightenment about God. Sometimes all we get are… — Nancy Phippen Browne Copy Share Image
“What is considered as a vow (vrat)? For this Dada [Gnani Purush], the five mahavrats (great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, the word has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Any religious expression of truth, however bizzare or uncouth, is more sufficing than any secular one, however elegant and intellectually brilliant. Animistic… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“There are many Arjunas in Kalyuga; they are focused, bright, hard-working, loving, righteous young men who want to change the world. Their… — Vivek Narayan Sharma Copy Share Image
Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Go directly to Nirvana. Don't pass go - or you'll have kids, you'll grow old together, you'll be born into another realm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It could manifest and grow like seeds planted throughout your life, so that life itself becomes the guru. The idea is that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Among all the sutras I have expounded, Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost! If you are able to uphold the Lotus… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Thus a person can be a Buddha one minute and a jackass three minutes later. You don't just become Buddha at the… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“What is considered as a vow (vrat)? For this Dada [Gnani Purush], the five mahavrats (great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord Mahavir) prevail at all times! He lives in wordly life yet He prevails in the mahavrats, what must that be…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1df/dada-bhagwan-31_body_what-is-considered-as-a-vow-vrat-for-thi_2052481.jpg)
