Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 110

• Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Snowboarding

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

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• The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.

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  Inspirational, Live Life, Buddhism

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

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• Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

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  Inspirational, Loneliness, Buddhism

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

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• Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mirrors

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• Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

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  Inspirational, Taken, Buddhism

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• If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Long

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

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• Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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

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• Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Goal

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

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• We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Buddhism

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

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• You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

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• There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.

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  Inspirational, Powerful, Buddhism

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• You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Feel Better

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• Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhism

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

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• Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Happy Life

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• You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.

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  Inspirational, Fun, Buddhism

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• As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Perfect

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• There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Buddhism

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• Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Dedication

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• The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Understanding

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• In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Worthwhile

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