The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“It is because we feel that we are separate from nature that we also feel it is okay to manipulate it, pollute… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas… — Mariko Mori Copy Share Image
When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite definitions of enlightenment comes from a Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello, who passed away some years ago.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One… — Thrangu Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The parable of the gem in the robe is very short, only one paragraph long in the Murano translation. Yet in spite… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
“Removing toxicity from your life is essential to maintaining a peaceful state of mind and an overall quality of health. This purging… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience… — Dr. Jennifer Howard "Your Ultimate Life Plan Copy Share Image
“Conventionally though, not realizing this [undifferentiable unity] is labeled "the phase of cyclic existence," while its realization, just as it is, [is… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Its mental discipline, however, is by far more fruitful, and keeps one's mind in equipoise, making one neither passionate nor dispassionate, neither… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Anything worth having doesn’t come easy' is a perception of negativity perpetuated by misery looking for company. Accept nothing but the opposite… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation,… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Anthony Morganti Copy Share Image
Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's… — Reginald Ray Copy Share Image
“As matters now stand, a great deal is still lacking in order for men as a whole to… apply [reason] confidently to… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“14. Zen and Nirvana. The beatitude of Zen is Nirvana, not in the Hinayanistic sense of the term, but in the sense… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behaviour at this time are those… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator – you can just discard him, dump him – and still… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“The Amida Buddha delivers those who recognize their own weakness and cowardice... Those who admit their own faults and above all, those… — Naoyuki Ochiai Copy Share Image
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The unconscious mind goes on doing things and creating problems. There is no wall at all that you have to push through.… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“But sharing does not mean wanting others to abandon their own spiritual roots and embrace your faith. That would be cruel. People… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA 1. Question. Of what religion[1] are you? Answer. The Buddhist. 2. Q. What is Buddhism? A. It… — Henry Steel Olcott Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
![“Conventionally though, not realizing this [undifferentiable unity] is labeled "the phase of cyclic existence," while its realization, just as it is, [is called] "the attainment of Buddhahood." At this point, however, there is neither a conditioned nor an unconditioned substance or entity that is…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/karl-brunnholzl-4600_life_conventionally-though-not-realizing-this_1337458.jpg)
![“As matters now stand, a great deal is still lacking in order for men as a whole to… apply [reason] confidently to religious issues. But we do have clear indications that the way is now being opened for men to proceed freely in this direction and that the obstacles to general enlightenment… are…” quote by Phyllis Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c2/phyllis-goldstein-7858_age-of-enlightenment_as-matters-now-stand-a-great-deal-is-sti_3208225.jpg)
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