Frederick Lenz Quotes

• Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

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  Buddhism, Reflection, Perception

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• What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

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  Buddhism, Focus, Enlightenment

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• Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

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  Happiness, Pain, Hate

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• There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Opportunity

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• Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

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  Moving, Buddhism, Chess Pieces

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• When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system.

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  Hate, Health, Buddhism

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• We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

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  Karma, Depressing, Yoga

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• When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

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  Karma, Selfish, Upset

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• Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

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  Single Mom, Humility, Buddhism

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• You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Light

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• Success and failure are terrible traps.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Success And Failure

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• Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

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  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low. You can talk to someone else for an hour and just feel fine.

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  Sick, Auras, Hours

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• The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

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  Powerful, Health, Positive Thinking

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• When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

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  Believe, Humility, Buddhism

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• You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Views

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• Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.

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  Buddhism, Self, Awe And Wonder

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• Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

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  Buddhism, People, Abuse

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• You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

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  Humble, Humility, Buddhism

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• The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

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  Running, Buddhism, Science

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• 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.

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  Pain, Mean, Buddhism

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• To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

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  Unconscious Thoughts, Balance, Flow

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• We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.

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  Natural, States, Stillness

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• There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Buddhism

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