Buddhism Quote by Stephen Levine

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you…

— Eckhart Tolle

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a…

— Maya Angelou

“Good friendship, in Buddhism, means considerably more than associating with people that one finds amenable and who share one's interests. It means in effect…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“When you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than…

— Stephen Levine

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there…

— Frederick Lenz

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious…

— Dogen

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is…

— Alexander Gardner

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

— Sharon Salzberg

Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of…

— Frederick Lenz

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a…

— Quentin S. Crisp

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close