A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is a non-theistic belief suggesting a path of spiritual development can offer the individual insight into the true nature of reality.” — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The less you know, the more you will be known The less you want, the more you will have The less you… — Vivian Amis Copy Share Image
If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) has natural and spontaneous forgiveness (sahaj kshama) even for those worthy of punishment; that forgiveness is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Pagoda are the centre of Burmese spiritual life, and every town and village has one. People visit the pagoda daily or weekly… — Emma Larkin Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I was too tired, other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening -… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Vatsigotra asked, “Is there a self?” and the Buddha did not say anything. Vatsigotra persisted, “Do you mean there is… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Maintaining one’s health in today’s toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“That is why, in order to arrive at a suitable message for the coming millennium, Buddhism has reached clear back to its… — Clark Strand Copy Share Image
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It wasn't enlightenment to live like you had no history and no consequences. The world wasn't just made out of instants --… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa,… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason,… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment -… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror… — Edward Conze Copy Share Image
Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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