Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown a path to awareness. Along that path is where one discovers that he is truly born. By… — VD Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“In the mid-1990s, while serving as senior editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, I proposed a thought experiment to test whether Buddhism… — Clark Strand Copy Share Image
“Although contemplating the nature of the body highlights its less attractive features, the purpose of the exercise is not to demonize the… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“We don’t look at the sky anymore, instead we stare at boxes that keeps us captive; we don’t walk barefoot any more,… — Martin Suarez Copy Share Image
You have to be able to connect to the world of archetypes. That is not so easy, and most people in the… — Robert Svoboda Copy Share Image
“If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego… — Samuel Sagan Copy Share Image
“Essentially, this extra structure covering our life has no reality. It has come to be there because of the misuse of our… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Distress (vyakudta) gives rise to all the unhappiness, and all unhappiness is destroyed by attaining the distress-free (nirakudta) state from the Gnani… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, all of mankind’s disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up… — Li Hongzhi Copy Share Image
“Embracing each instant creates enthusiasm and joy towards your life. Each moment is new, exciting, and fresh when you accept instead of… — Dr. Janice Anderson & Kiersten Anderson Copy Share Image
“12. The Great Person and Small Person. For these reasons Zen proposes to call man Buddha-natured or Good-natured in a sense transcendental… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were,… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
“The smallest component of the human molecule is a vibration - the equivalent to a musical note. Taking the time to learn… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think and you… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from… — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
“the Buddha, aged seventy-two, thought it was high time to preach his long-cherished doctrine that all sentient beings can attain to Supreme… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
A Buddha is a Buddha,a Krishna is a Krishna,and you are you.And you are not in any way less than anybody else.Respect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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