Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 7

• The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

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  Buddhism, Abuse, Welfare

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• What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Focus

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• Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!

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  Karma, Crazy, Yoga

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• There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, World

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

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  Art, Health, Fighting

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• When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

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  Inspirational, Children, Buddhism

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• When we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Buddhism

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• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

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  Inspirational, Wall, Buddhism

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• Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Knowledge And Power

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• You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Each Day

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• Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Answers

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• We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Taste

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• There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Winning

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• There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare.

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  Dream, Firsts, Nightmare

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• I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.

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  Dream, Thinking, Long

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• When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.

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  Dream, Morning, Night

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• The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where they could see into the future or know what do to and make proper decisions.

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  Dream, Buddhism, Profound

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• It's very important where you live. Because where you live, the energies make it easier or more difficult to dream. In certain places dreams are very manifest and very strong. So you should always pick a place to live that's good to dream in. One of the best places to dream is by the ocean.

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  Dream, Strong, Ocean

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• My problem with L. A. was that I could see the air I was breathing, I don't particularly like crowds, and I was much better at snowboarding than I was at surfing.

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  Air, Snowboarding, Breathing

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• Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

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  Death, Who We Are, Spirit

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

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• The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

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  Expression, Different, Levels

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• If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.

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  Humble, Humility, Buddhism

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• The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.

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  Buddhism, Views, Perfect

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