Frederick Lenz Quotes About Balance

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

• The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Eye, Buddhism

• A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

• Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Heart, Buddhism

• I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Students

• A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.

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  Strong, Buddhism, Upset

• Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Two

• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

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  Real, Fighting, Buddhism

• We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mistake

• Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Caring

• Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Buddhist

• It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Light

• A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Balance, Watches

• When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Practice

• Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, House

• When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Over You, Balance

• If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions or become emotionless when you need to be very sensitive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Needs

• Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Keys, Self

• Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Balance

• Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Creative

• Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

• Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Balance

• In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Commitment, Buddhism, Practice

• Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving Up, Buddhism, Practice

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