Frederick Lenz Quotes About Feelings

• If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Sorry, Buddhism

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Sorry, Self

• Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Reflection

• In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

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  Buddhism, Feelings, Sensual

• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

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  Art, Lying, Buddhism

• 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, Rama

• My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a person couldn't have a glass of wine or a drink.

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  Mean, Wine, Glasses

• People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Responsibility

• The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ego, Feelings

• We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

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  Yoga, Feelings, Able

• 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

• You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Dog, Yoga

• Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Religious, Fun

• In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

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  Yoga, People, Meditation

• All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Feelings

• Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Feelings

• Psychic impressions can also remain in a physical location for some time. You can move into a home just vacated, pick-up the thought forms from the previous tenants, and assume they were your own thoughts and feelings.

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  Moving, Home, Psychics

• If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

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  Focus, Feelings, Blind

• Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.

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  Karma, Mean, Views

• "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Humility, Buddhism

• Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

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  Art, Discovery, Self

• Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Buddhism

• Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Feelings, Energy

• Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull your power together and meditate, no matter what happens to you physically, you will have gained from this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Work Out, Feelings

• You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Creating, Ideas

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