“Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...” — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.” — Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla Copy Share Image
“Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Satsang means the path to One's own town, to One's own home! Satsang is the discussion of one's own Self, everything else… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“No claims were made by him [Buddha] to any unalterable truth, nor did he demand that his teachings should simply be accepted,… — Durden Smith Copy Share Image
“Nirvana," says Kiai Hwan,[FN#276] "means the extinction of pain or the crossing over of the sea of life and death. It denotes… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“But if you’re serious about the path to enlightenment and lucrative stock options, go quietly with us in the noise and haste… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of… — Dharma Publishing Copy Share Image
“We’ (the enlightened one) do not have buddhi (intellect). ‘We’ too would become emotional, if We had intellect. ‘We’ are abuddha (one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
![“No claims were made by him [Buddha] to any unalterable truth, nor did he demand that his teachings should simply be accepted, taken on trust or acquired through an act of faith. Instead he [Buddha] encouraged those who wished to make the spiritual journey he himself had undertaken to experiment…” quote by Durden Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/durden-smith-234147_buddhism_no-claims-were-made-by-him-buddha-to-any_1794786.jpg)
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