Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 3

• The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.

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  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

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• Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

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  Buddhism, Caring, Light

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• In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Secret

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• When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.

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  Pain, Might, Way

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• In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

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  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

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• The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

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  Humanity, Way, Christianity

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• Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless."

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  Teacher, Thinking, Remember You

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• Don't stand out. Be in a room and remain unnoticed.

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  Humility, Buddhism, Rooms

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• Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

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  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.

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  Teacher, Empowerment, Important

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• Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Buddhism

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• Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

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  Attachment, Ideas, Mind

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• Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Reflection

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• The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

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  Dream, Buddhism, Simple

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• Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

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  Honesty, Sorry, Self

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• In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

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  Opposites, People, Culture

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• There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

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  People, Mind, States

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• If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.

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  Car, Important, Levels

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• You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime.

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  Moving, Buddhism, People

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• Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.

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  Answers, Sometimes, Christianity

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• In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

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  Philosophy, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

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  Reality, Fleeting, Body

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• Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

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  Atlantis, Earth, Computer

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• Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

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  Science, Computer, Mindset

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• The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

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  Morning, Coffee, Buddhism

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