The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“In Hinduism and Buddhism, dharma has various connotations, but generally it means cheerfully fulfilling your moral and ethical duty. Doing the right… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've… — Hsu Yun Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man -… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity,… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Copy Share Image
Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“Nan Fink Gefen, a Jewish meditation teacher and author of an introduction to Jewish meditation, identifies three major sources of contemporary Jewish… — Rifat Sonsino Copy Share Image
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“In bidding for popular support and competing with other cults as a parallel religion, the sangha had been losing ground throughout India… — John Keay Copy Share Image
I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Truly experiencing the Principle Oneness is all about recognizing and allowing meaningful, loving connections with your broader self. Enlightenment is realizing you… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The European prosperity driven by silver and Atlantic trade was the context of the rationalizing assertions of Enlightenment thinkers.” — John Tutino Copy Share Image
“the Visuddhimagga. This fifth-century text, which means Path to Purification in Pali (the language of Buddhism’s earliest canon),” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“There is the gradual path to enlightenment or the direct. The direct you sense during the lifetime, the gradual when time is… — Lenfantvivant Copy Share Image
There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You can't be successful if you are good at hiding yourself! Be success minded; think about uncovering what you know, what you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender;… — Osho Copy Share Image
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
