Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values. — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward,” Krishna tells his student Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.)” — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things. — Sengcan Copy Share Image
The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. We do what we want to do, until… — Steve Mitskavich Copy Share Image
The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-traumatic cost. Only such… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
When Zen masters say 'effortlessness' they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Much of the Buddhist aspiration revolves around mastering this internal reality, fortifying it, and cutting all external strings that might be attached… — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus” — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“There is dharma (religion) in scriptures, but no essence in it. The essence is in the heart of a Gnani (Enlightened One).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
