“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it? — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing. (The Buddha)” — Alex Fan Moniz Copy Share Image
Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Enlightenment occurs when someone becomes inspired by information and uses it to enhance their life. — Aimee Vernon Copy Share Image
“We live within the clouds of our minds waiting for the sun to shine with happiness.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
“The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist,… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“The Buddha’s process of investigation can be challenging. This is not because his teachings are abstract but rather because they urge us… — Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel Copy Share Image
Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is existence itself — one stream, one field, one song. Many currents, many blooms. Endless possibilities, endless joy, endless excitement.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“The goal of the Buddha’s teaching is Nibbāna (Sanskrit: Nirvāṇa). Literally translated, that means “not burning,” or in other words, the loss… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“In the end, all any of these religions aim to do is give us hope. The main difference with Buddhism is that… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
“In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If there is a person of the highest grade of understanding, he may first of all learn the most profound, next the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created…perfection.” — Vivian Amis Copy Share Image
“There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.” — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Three are the peaks that everyone must seek: Achievement, Fulfillment and Enlightenment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi Copy Share Image
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not the… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me? — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
