“The Buddhadharma is not, however, associated with the practice of being a candy-ass.” — Susan Piver Copy Share Image
“The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.” — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment. — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.” — Rodolfo Costa Copy Share Image
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A man's mind may make him a Buddha, or it may make him a beast. Misled by error, one becomes a demon; enlightened, one… — Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Copy Share Image
“Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Who is the yogi who abides in a nonconceptual state? One who rightly abides without projections, in peace, with all fabrication of… — Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
“The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“We cannot have it all. We must live with our limitations. We cannot hold onto life with higher esteem than it deserves.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
“It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If we can’t be ballplayers together, maybe I can start bein’ a Buddhist.” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Burying oneself in holy books and traditions, doesn't bring holiness, what does is, losing oneself in the service of others.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is an ugly duckling; enlightenment is a magnificent swan.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
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