Rama Quotes - Page 7

• I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Twilight, Eye, California

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• My travels to the Far East occurred primarily during the 1960's. Naturally, I have returned many times since. Of course, there was concern from my family that I was traveling to far distant lands to accomplish snowboarding activities that no one had tried yet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snowboarding, Land, East

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• Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Snowboarding

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• I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

  Frederick Lenz

  Issues, Tacky, Sexuality

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• In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Matter, Spirit

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• I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Conservative, Bohemian

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• At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, College, Teach

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• The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Giving, Meditation

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• I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Religious

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• I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Awkward, Special, Sometimes

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• I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Book, People

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• I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Years, Space

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• I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Thinking, Age

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• The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Giving, Purity

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• I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Wonderful, I've Learned

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• I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Way, Wonderful

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• I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

  Frederick Lenz

  Smart, School, Honor

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• I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Feelings, Aspiration

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• There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Miracle

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• Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

  Barry Mann

  Rams, Unanswered Questions, Lama

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• It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Self, Names, Meditation

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• Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

  Erma Bombeck

  Girl, Humorous, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

  Trish Stratus

  Brain, Together, Casinos

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• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Kings, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1169, Manonmani Publishers

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• He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Hymns, Three

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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