Quotes About Spirituality

My interest in material wealth and greed for possessions were replaced by a thirst for spiritual understanding and a passionate desire to see world conditions improve.1

The outer teacher introduces you directly to the truth of your inner teacher.

Help me, inspire me to purify all my karma and negative emotions, and to realize the true nature of my mind!

the true meaning of "blessing"—a transformation in which your mind transcends into the state of the absolute.

As they die, they enable their body to be reabsorbed back into the light essence of the elements that created it

the six realms of samsara: hell, hungry ghost, animal, human, demigod, and god realms, respectively.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is through the heart.

If my dying relative or friend is a practicing Christian and I am a Buddhist, is there any conflict?" How could there be? I tell them: You are invoking the truth, and Christ and Buddha are both compassionate manifestations of truth, appearing in different ways to help beings.

One central question here is whether there is any true separation between life and death, or whether it all unfolds in, and is somehow shaped by, our intimacy with and within the gap.

from the Tibetan Buddhist point of view, we can divide our entire existence into four continuously interlinked realities: (1) life, (2) dying and death, (3) after death, and (4) rebirth. These are known as the four bardos: (1) the natural bardo of this life, (2) the painful bardo of dying, (3) the luminous bardo of dharmata, and (4) the karmic bardo of becoming.

Tibet's famous poet saint, Milarepa, said: "My religion is to live—and die—without regret.

No one anywhere was angry, ill, or sad; no one did evil, none was proud; the world became quite quiet, as though it had reached full perfection.

Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

death comes not as a defeat but as a triumph, the crowning and most glorious moment of life.

pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha

For someone who has prepared and practiced, death comes not as a defeat but as a triumph, the crowning and most glorious moment of life.

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

the buddha nature, the seed of enlightenment

The nature of mind is the nature of everything." I wonder if this threefold process the bardos reveal is true not only, as we discovered, of all the different levels of consciousness and of all the different experiences of consciousness, both in life and death, but also perhaps of the actual nature of the universe itself

William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Mind itself is Padmasambhava; there is no practice or meditation apart from that.

Good at the End is the way in which we bring our meditation to a close by dedicating all its merit, and praying with real fervor:

Si estamos aquí es para encarnar lo trascendente.

the heart, the eye, and the life-force of true practice.