“For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“my guru is not one who can teach you about the renunciation of power, but he can certainly teach you about the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“In the split second where you understand a joke you experience a moment of “enlightenment.” This cannot be achieved by “explaining” the… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Our potent contemporary cultural sanctuaries shape the Dharma to fit our cultural traditions so that the mirroring needed for spiritual paths to… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“The most incredible architecture Is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside… — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it.… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
“Everything depends upon your readiness and willingness to let go into the Unknown and live from that mysterious and precious condition. The… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to… — Larry Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
“To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn’t look any farther than at what abounds with… — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.” — Seema Brain Openers Copy Share Image
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
“In his different discourses, even the Buddha gave contradictory explanations. The context of the explanation and the audience for whom it was… — Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye Copy Share Image
We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are… — Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Copy Share Image
“We take the responsibility for our own enlightenment. We can pray for some help, and we may get it. But the work… — Darren Littlejohn Copy Share Image
The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment,… — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
