Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean.… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Now picture that one day, a single prisoner is somehow freed … The familiar wall with its comforting shadows suddenly feels safer and… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“It’s all Dhamma if we have mindfulness. When we see the animals that run away from danger, we see that they are… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“The Buddha himself always emphasized that trust is good but knowing is better. He explicitly put his teachings out in the open… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
We live in a society which is heading in one direction, so it's good to have at least a few friends who… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Inner Awareness is often gained in incremental steps at first. The distraction of the perceived physical world dictates this. However, once one… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?'… — Niall Ferguson 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
“It is the Great Ones, the masters of life, whose light illumines the pathway, even at its commencement, and grows brighter with… — G. de Purucker Copy Share Image
“Otherwise we might have done this retreat or that retreat, this practice or that practice, received this teaching or that teaching, this… — Lama Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Many of us have set out on the path of enlightenment. We long for a release of self-hood in some kind of… — Andrew Boyd Copy Share Image
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . .… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
“If you remember even a name of Buddha, it would deprive you of purity of heart." The conventional or orthodox idea of… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ –… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Buddhism and Christianity are incompatible because there is no God in Buddhism - particularly in Theravada Buddhism. But they are also allies… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Buddha’s main goal was to enlighten people, so that they could live in harmony. Do you know what happened instead?… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in… — Jonathan Landaw Copy Share Image
The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Of these three collections of the Sacred Writings, the first two, or Sutra and Vinaya, of Mahayana, as well as of Himayana,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Some people live closely guarded lives, fearful of encountering someone or something that might shatter their insecure spiritual foundation. This attitude, however,… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“Many years ago, I recognized that by understanding your own tradition better, you also develop increased respect, consideration, and understanding for others.… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of… — Peter of Blois Copy Share Image
Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“If you want to experience enlightenment, take a deep breath in and relax. As you are releasing the air forget, for a… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I read of a Buddhist teacher who developed Alzheimer's. He had retired from teaching because his memory was unreliable, but he made… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
![“I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here…” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c54/alice-walker-347_buddhism_i-m-not-a-buddhist-the-whole-point-of-an_1695274.jpg)
