Frederick Lenz Quotes About Challenges

• We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Sleep, Buddhism

• Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Challenges, Trying

• It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humble, Humility, Buddhism

• The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Challenges

• A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Challenges, Battle

• Naturally, along the way, there are beings and forces that will challenge you. They want to try and get some of your power, take it away from you, all this nonsense, and of course, you just defeat them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Challenges, Trying, Want

• With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, School, Buddhism

• Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Challenges

• In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Challenges, Training

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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