“Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of… — Dharma Publishing Copy Share Image
“For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In Dzogchen one learns to become responsible for oneself without following rules. A person who follows rules is like a blind person… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges.… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
'Every facet of our lives should be directed towards the goal of better understanding of ourselves and our relationship to each other,… — Nita Siegman Copy Share Image
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values,… — Sheila Jasanoff Copy Share Image
How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous.… — Bhakti Tirtha Swami Copy Share Image
I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Life doesn’t have a singular purpose and yet we try to pigeonhole this infinite gift by searching for a single meaning behind… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein… — Josei Toda Copy Share Image
There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be truly born. When one is born, one is able to then… — VD Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown the path to awareness. Along that path is where one discovers that he is truly born. Once… — VD Copy Share Image
“As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed,… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“O voyagers, O seamen, You who came to port, and you whose bodies Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea,… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“God is not a goal, nirvana is not a goal, enlightenment is not a goal, it is not an achievement -- just… — Osho Copy Share Image
“When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t save the world outright, but he could aid it by living a life of integrity and contentment. If enough people… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment focused attention on Glasgow and Edinburgh as centres of intellectual activity. The Scottish Enlightenment was… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost. Enlightenment is more like… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my… — RZA Copy Share Image
“The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Answer the Call to Shine Your Light Right now there may be just few individuals who balance duality in unconditional love, but… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
