With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“You have known the pleasure and the convenience of modern science; so why the Dhyanalinga? It is because I want you to… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Even cavemen who could barely think, they must have seen it, that sky; and tribal people bossed around by their village chiefs;… — Rose Rosetree Copy Share Image
When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within… — Eric Allen Copy Share Image
“The patriarchal line is, then, a reminder of how deep cultural biases can run, in this case undercutting the core Buddhist teaching… — Roshi P. Kapleau Copy Share Image
“For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning… — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There is a need somewhere in this world that only your dharma, fully expressed, can fulfill. The reason there is such overwhelming… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the… — Kim Chestney Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Cook, judging from his journals, was not a pious man. A product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, he valued reason above all… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A Gnani (Enlightened one) never wastes his time in counting money; upayog (applied awareness of Self) gets wasted in doing so. Upayog… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
