Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Is there a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul)? There definitely is, and the Parmatma is within you. Why are you searching for it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Gnan (knowledge) of every living being of the entire world exists in a Soul. However, only the Gnan that is able to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Having no background in philosophic thought and ignorant of the reasons supporting their faith, they experience great uneasiness when someone questions their… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“The whole world is the same single community; each and everyone learns there's nothing to do. This is the very place to… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“In a world of watered-down bestsellers and formula novels, Hitching to Nirvana eases back just enough to show the blade which cuts… — CAConrad Copy Share Image
“You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“THE DIRECT EXPLANATION OF THE REAL ORIGIN[FN#376] 5. The Ekayana Doctrine that Teaches the Ultimate Reality. This doctrine teaches us that all… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I think that what we need is a balance between men and women. I don't believe in the value of the matriarchy… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Finally, let me close today by pointing out, as I mentioned earlier, that in this section we read we are now looking… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
“When I look back on my life I come to one simple conclusion: there exists an intelligent, loving Presence in the Cosmos… — Dylan Morrison Copy Share Image
“Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as… — Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke… — Zen Master Seung Sahn Copy Share Image
I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“2. The First Step in the Mental Training. Some of the old Zen masters are said to have attained to supreme Enlightenment… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The old masters said if you met another Buddha on the road, you should kill him. All reality is an illusion: if… — Edward W. Robertson Copy Share Image
I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
“In Guhyagarbha (māyājāla tantra) it is said: In any of the four times and ten directions Enlightenment will not be found Except… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity.… — Stephen Ross Copy Share Image
“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody.… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Let yourself get carried away by the night from time to time. Look up at the stars and try to get drunk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
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