Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 146

• If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.

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  Stress, Buddhism, Balance

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• It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.

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  Beautiful, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.

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  Buddhism, Growth, Balance

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• Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Order

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• Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Balance

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

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  Buddhism, Keys, Self

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• If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Balance

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• It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

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  Buddhism, Ideas, People

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• Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

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  Buddhism, Balance, Defining Ourselves

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• You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

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  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Ego

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• If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Order

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• So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.

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  Buddhism, Balance, World

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• Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

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  Letting Go, Jealous, Buddhism

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

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Balance

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• Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

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  Buddhism, Giving, Balance

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Buddhism

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• I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.

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  Stars, Ocean, Humility

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• What is essential is to draw the energy of love from your heart and bring it into your mind, as San Exubere said: "it is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

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  Heart, Eye, Buddhism

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• Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Discovery

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• 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?

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  Buddhism, Giving, Creative

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• Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.

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  Buddhism, Compassion, Judging

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• Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your full attention into it.

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  Buddhism, Careers, Inspire

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• Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

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  Buddhism, Ego, Inspire

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• The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

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  Buddhism, Compassion, Giving

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• You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.

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  Buddhism, Miracle, Balance

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