Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

A culture which doesn’t believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

I don’t believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the West, does James Thomson (B.V.) in The City of Dreadful Night; we come...

Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn’t appeal to everyone.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of ‘you’ is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond,...

And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for ‘the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the...

There’s no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

The message was clear for baby boomers everywhere: Kurt Cobain was not merely some rock ‘n’ roll icon who couldn’t handle drugs. In ways that were important to recognize, he was every parent’s child.

I like Nirvana, but I couldn’t say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

You’re real though, at least that’s something,” Alecto pointed out, holding his hand out in front of her. Smiling miserably, Mandy took his hand in her own and sat there beside him quietly.

I dare us to give up – maybe we’ll reach nirvana by the time we’re sixty.

Smokers always waxed poetic about the ritual of it, how a large part of the satisfaction was packing the box and pulling the foil wrapper and plucking an aromatic stick. They claimed they loved the...

For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new-born Not-self, the behavior, the appearance, the...

When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.

Teen Spirit” I can offer you, if you’re interested.

Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What of 17? What might you have learned from a lifetime of pain? […]...

He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.

We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things…but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any outer circumstances.

If you could possibly understand how precious and powerful your experience of this one lifetime as yourself is, you wouldn’t be trying to go anywhere else.If you could know the perfection of time and space,You...

As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds “jiva” (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with “ajiva” (the lifeless, material aspect of this world) – perhaps not unlike that which science seeks to bind...

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created….perfection.

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true,...

The light of the sun is the manifestation of the clarity of the sky; and the sky is the basic condition necessary for the manifestation of the sun’s light. So, too, in the sky two,...

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of...

Your dream is to feel good; God’s dream is for you to do good.

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being...

Enlightenment, or Nirvana, is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a very high mountain one always sees the sun. Nirvana is not a paradise...

I love the sound of the trees in the breeze. If the forest is so clearly musical, why can’t it play the guitar while I sing Nirvana covers?

The purpose of life is the lesson.