Quotes About Nirvana

#1. All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Gary Numan

#3. Buddhists make it very simple for you to reach your heavenly reward. To reach Nirvana, all you have to do is live right, think right, and deny yourself just about everything.

Catherine Coulter

#4. With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

Carrie Brownstein

#5. Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Dalai Lama

#7. The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for 'What is' the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana.

Matthew Donnelly

#8. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Buddha

#9. You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

Jon Stewart

#10. I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

Krist Novoselic

#11. Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#12. Behind Ise Shrine, unseen, hidden by the fence, Buddha sees nirvana.

Gary Gauthier

#13. By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Your mind is nirvana.

Bodhidharma

#15. At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Hakuin Ekaku

#16. The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free.

Frederick Lenz

#17. It's the intoxication of nirvana. That's how you get us to endure this life. You promise us heaven, don't you? But what do you know of our hell?

Hugh Howey

#18. Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.

Frederick Lenz

#19. The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

Ken Wilber

#20. Three days ago we not only ruled the earth, we had survivor's guilt about all the other species we'd wiped out on our climb to the nirvana of round-the-clock cable news and microwave popcorn. Now we're the Flashlight People.

Stephen King

#21. Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

Jim Holt

#22. One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

Gautama Buddha

#23. 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 reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. She was my nirvana.

A Meredith Walters

#25. I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

Scott Weiland

#26. From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Dave Grohl

#27. My Top Ten Reasons To Live
10. Stars in a really dark sky
9. Driving across the country
8. Nirvana
7. My mom
6. Our dog pack
5. Gay bingo
4. Mud fights
3. Kissing
2. Magic marker tattoos
1. Pink socks

Albert Borris

#28. I'm worse at what I do best. And for this gift, I feel blessed.

Kurt Cobain

#29. Non-Dualism is the future of all Religions.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

Dave Grohl

#31. Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

Dogen

#32. Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.

Gautama Buddha

#33. I don't really like Nirvana that much.

Frances Bean Cobain

#34. I'm not like them,
but I can pretend.

Nirvana

#35. Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

Dave Grohl

#36. Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.

Frederick Lenz

#37. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

Gautama Buddha

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

Charles R. Cross

#39. I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

Nat Wolff

#40. 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.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#41. I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

Al Yankovic

#42. We do not have to look for God, we do not have to look for our ultimate dimension or nirvana, because we are nirvana, we are God.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#43. Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Aldous Huxley

#44. When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden

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

Megha Khare

#46. When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

Gary Cherone

#47. I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the 'Unplugged' album. It's so great.

Steven Hall

#48. Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Gautama Buddha

#49. Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that. So, congratulations on being free, I guess. The rest of us are still here, grappling with all that's been torn up.

Ava Dellaira

#50. in Chicago in 1893. While they introduced the American people to such new words as reincarnation, nirvana, and Karma, the new religions also echoed the creed of self-reliance that had been an article of faith in American religion and culture for almost a century.

George Pendle

#51. Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.

Joss Sheldon

#52. All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

Frederick Lenz

#53. Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

Frederick Lenz

#54. Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#55. When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

Eddie Vedder

#56. I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

Pete Wentz

#57. The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.

Frederick Lenz

#58. Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

Shalom Auslander

#59. By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#60. Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

Gautama Buddha

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

Vivian Amis

#62. This side of Nirvana, there is no such escape for any of us as far as I know.

Frederick Buechner

#63. Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place where mind, body and soul would be utterly satisfied.

Michael Palin

#64. Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

Frederick Lenz

#65. The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

Dave Grohl

#66. I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.

James Gunn

#67. Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

Frederick Lenz

#68. I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.

Big Pun

#69. Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn't watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

Jack Kornfield

#70. The Sanskrit word for awareness is smriti, which no one can pronounce. This may explain why awareness has not become as well-known in the west as karma, dharma, and nirvana.

George K. Ilsley

#71. Worship is invoking the divinity within. Meditation is awareness of divinity within. Enlightenment is realization of divinity within. Nirvana is being the divinity

Rashmit Kalra

#72. For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

Michael Azerrad

#73. Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

Frederick Lenz

#74. When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.

Frederick Lenz

#75. Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#76. Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous.

Jerry Della Femina

#77. In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

Frederick Lenz

#78. When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause

Gautama Buddha

#79. 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, there would be no story to tell.

Natalie Valdes

#80. I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.

Gautama Buddha

#81. That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Marc Jacobs

#82. Attaining bliss can take lifetimes, or one can simply choose to experience it in their deepest dreams. Sleep well my friend, as dreams are vehicles that can quickly take you to the awareness that you call Nirvana

Gary Hopkins

#83. You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.

Frederick Lenz

#84. The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#85. This is a fantastic place to come back to in one's next life. Forget Nirvana, make a mess to come back.

Milika M.

#86. Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana

Gautama Buddha

#87. Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

Frederick Lenz

#88. Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

Frederick Lenz

#89. Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

Frederick Lenz

#90. Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#91. At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair

Yu Hua

#92. The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Paul Banks

#93. Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

Frederick Lenz

#94. With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc ... and that really sucks.

John Gallagher Jr.

#95. Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.

Mark R. Faulkner

#96. You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

Frederick Lenz

#97. In life, you achieve nirvana when you learn to love unconditionally.

Debasish Mridha

#98. Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.

Frederick Lenz

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

Kurt Cobain

#100. I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

Dave Grohl