Frederick Lenz Quotes About Losing

• A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

• If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Car, Important, Levels

• Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Winning

• Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mean

• I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Sports, Sex

• Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Goal

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

• There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Winning

• I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Attitude, Believe

• The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Loss, Energy

• In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Thinking, People

• If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Energy, Doe

• Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Alive, Losing, Losing Power

• You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Needs, Shelter

• You need to become a winner to go beyond winning and losing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Winning, Needs

• Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Battle, Energy, Opponents

• Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Errors, Giving, Energy

• The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Loss, Attachment

• The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, People, Energy

• Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Mind, Limits

• Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Bored, Energy, Attention

• From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

• You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Needs, Gaining Power, Losing

• Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Night, Cities

• If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Over You, Care

• People don't necessarily take power from you for themselves. It just means they are operating at a lower attention level and you got pulled down by it. You are not sufficiently strong enough to be with someone and be unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Mean, People

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