Frederick Lenz Quotes About Choices

• We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Make Others Happy

• Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.

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  Sex, Buddhism, Views

• If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Choices, Matter

• Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.

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  Inspirational, Military, Ocean

• You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Live Life, Opportunity, Land

• You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

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  Lying, Buddhism, Choices

• Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

• Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Choices, Mind

• Karma will lead you to a larger more expansive happier view or a dinger darker view. That view will enable you to make choices and have experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Views, Choices

• To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

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  Buddhism, Choices, Desire

• If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

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  Karma, Choices, Patterns

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

• Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

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  People, Choices, Feelings

• There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

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  Two, Choices, Taoism

• You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.

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  Death, Choices, Alive

• We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.

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  Choices, Taoism, World

• If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice or obnoxious, you might as well marry the wealthy one.

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  Success, Beautiful, Nice

• There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Choices, Joy, Opinion

• Most people simply go through life. They feel that they're making choices in their lives that cause destiny to move in certain ways. I would suggest that they have no control of their lives, all their choices are really made for them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Destiny, People

• You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

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  Buddhism, Choices, Ego

• Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Giving, Choices

• Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Destiny

• Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Choices

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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