For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins 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
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
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It… — Anonymous 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
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Science has marched forward. But civilization’s values remain rooted in philosophies, religious traditions, and ethical frameworks devised many centuries ago. Even our… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of… — Samuel Moyn Copy Share Image
“If a person wants to walk on the path of the Vitrag (Enlightened Ones), he should turn the upayog (applied awareness) from… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The Buddha encouraged his followers to never accept what was put to them as truth by anyone else without scrutiny or skepticism.… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many… — Edgar Ramirez 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
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“the consciousnesses who have been directly associated with ideas of enlightenment or spiritual paths will often reach a point of the admission… — Master Teacher Copy Share Image
“You know, when you look into the Guru's eyes you're just seeing yourself. If you see the Guru, then you're missing the… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that… — Rafe Martin Copy Share Image
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment,… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The enlightened are servants of the rich and poor, helpers of the weak and powerful, friends of the lowly and eminent. They… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who… — Dalai Lama 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
“Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look… — Frederick Lenz 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
“We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things...but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any… — Vivian Amis 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
