Frederick Lenz Quotes About Happiness

• Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

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  Happiness, Pain, Hate

• Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, People

• You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

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  Happiness, Taken, Buddhism

• Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Love Is

• Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

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  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

• We are miracles. So don't deny yourself the miracle of happiness.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Miracle

• Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Asking Why

• My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.

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  Happiness, Beautiful, Buddhism

• Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

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  Happiness, Crazy, Silly

• Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Two

• Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Light

• To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Occupy Yourself

• You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Unhappy

• Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Practice

• How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Thinking

• Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Want

• Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.

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  Happiness, Beautiful, Buddhism

• Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Live In The Moment

• Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

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  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

• There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.

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  Happiness, Crazy, Buddhism

• Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Keys

• Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.

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  Happiness, Rain, Fall

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.

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  Happiness, Nice, Buddhism

• Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

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  Happiness, Crazy, Yoga

• Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Practice

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