You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, cop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water ... but no longer trip over things at night. — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“If we recognize that Spirit is all powerful, and cannot be hurt, and that only Spirit exists, then nothing that happens here… — David Hoffmeister Copy Share Image
I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are… — Donte Stallworth Copy Share Image
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain… — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
“In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. We do what we want to do, until… — Steve Mitskavich Copy Share Image
“A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
