Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Chinese Buddhism was the natural study of reality, and led to feelings of devotion just from noting the daily leaves, the colors… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“so Enlightenment philosophers developed a new form of theism, based entirely on reason and Newtonian science, which they called Deism.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Whenever you study or contemplate the Dharma, Rely not on the words, but on the meaning. If the meaning is understood, then… — Jamgön Mipham Copy Share Image
“Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we… — Tom Cowan Copy Share Image
Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in… — Frederick Lenz 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
There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Dissociation (being split-off from one’s deepest truth) mimics enlightenment – but it isn’t enlightenment. People who are dissociated live in great peace.… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better.… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and… — Belsebuub Copy Share Image
“According to Zen Buddhists, all things have their existence in The Void. The Void is that which is no-thing, but contains all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddha-nature may be compared with the sun, and individual mind with the sky. Then an Enlightened mind is like the sky in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan… — Doug "Ten" Rose Copy Share Image
My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
“All in all, The Sutra of the Teaching ofAksayamati lists eight criteria that distinguish expedient and definitive meaning: i) The expedient meaning… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Lord Buddha never put much emphasis on belief. Instead, he exhorted us to investigate and try to understand the reality of our… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I heard a story once in the Orient about two architects who went to see the Buddha. They had run out of… — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image
War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
