Enlightenment Quotes - Page 38

• They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Self, Technique

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• Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Women, Son

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• Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Spirituality, Has Beens

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• In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Book, Animal

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• Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Men

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• There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Women, Needs

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• Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Women, Opposites

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• A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Confused, Women

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• Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Inherent, Men

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• They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Opposites, Rejected

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• They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Women, Political

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• Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Ideas, Limits

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• Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Women, Fighting

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• Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Dirty, Association

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• Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Years, Should

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• In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Women, Hate

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• Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Women, Views

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• Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Law, Years

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• Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Women, Survival

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• A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, He Man, Stills

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• Enlightenment should be a human right.

  B. W. Powe

  Should, Humans

  "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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• Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

  Terence McKenna

  Culture, Barriers, Decency

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• What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Teacher, Needs, World

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• Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Action, Good Thoughts

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• Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feelings, Different, Needs

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