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Quotes About Spirituality

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
~ Francis Bacon
There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.
~ Rumi
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.
~ Van Morrison
The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.
~ Frederick Lenz
The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.
~ Kedar Joshi
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.
~ Frederick Lenz
In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.
~ Frederick Lenz
Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.
~ Frederick Lenz
Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.
~ Frederick Lenz
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
~ Frederick Lenz
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.
~ Frederick Lenz
God loves only one philosophy, And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy.
~ Sri Chinmoy
There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.
~ Frederick Lenz
Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.
~ Frederick Lenz
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.
~ Frederick Lenz
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.
~ Frederick Lenz
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.
~ Frederick Lenz
Good and evil lay side by side.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.
~ Frederick Lenz
People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.
~ Erich Fromm