“If your chit goes in your husband, then that chit is worldly. If your chit goes with some other man (other than… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
“To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the art of learning to listen to our own heart. Meditation is the art of learning to listen to the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“In the end, all any of these religions aim to do is give us hope. The main difference with Buddhism is that… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
“In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneously in the present moment of physical reality,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“If there is a person of the highest grade of understanding, he may first of all learn the most profound, next the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“If a teacher or a so-called guru offers you enlightenment, tells you he has all the answers, claims his way is the… — karma yeshe rabgye Copy Share Image
In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“In the West everyone wants the “highest” practice, a wish that indicates a misunderstanding of the path. Everyone wants to hurry through… — Tenzin Wangyal Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness, or Buddha-nature, as we have seen in the previous chapter, is the mind of mind and the consciousness of consciousness,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right… — Margaret Bondfield Copy Share Image
“In conclusion, those who, like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers… — His Holiness the Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
“The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“We cannot have it all. We must live with our limitations. We cannot hold onto life with higher esteem than it deserves.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A serene mind does not require precepts. An upright behaviour does not need contemplative practice. 心平何勞持戒 行直何用修禪 Filial piety is gratefully taking care… — Linbergh Chu Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
