Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“anyone reared by fundamentalist parents deserves credit for the exceptional struggle from indoctrination to enlightenment.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Take, this day, my hand and promise to absolve what my forefathers and I did to you and your kin.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“To act upon the outer world and change it, you must be first be fine to act upon yourself.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning. — Mechai Viravaidya Copy Share Image
I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Is enlightenment gradual or is it sudden? Whole schools of Buddhism have grown up around this issue. But it has always seemed… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“In the West everyone wants the “highest” practice, a wish that indicates a misunderstanding of the path. Everyone wants to hurry through… — Tenzin Wangyal Copy Share Image
The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In conclusion, those who, like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers… — His Holiness the Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right… — Margaret Bondfield Copy Share Image
Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha. — Jack Black Copy Share Image
“Journey to Enlightenment Emotions must come to the surface to release the past that binds.” — Dana Dason Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. — Nour Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself. — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of course balance is the key to enlightenment and no one can be perfect all the time.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“You can lead an idiot to enlightenment but you can't make him think.” — Anthony Foster Copy Share Image
“Whoever said ignorance is bliss has never known the joy of enlightenment.” — Denise Camille Frye Copy Share Image
At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
