Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 156

• The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.

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  War, Buddhism, Humanity

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• In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.

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  Buddhism, Humanity, Growth

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• The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

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  Buddhism, Humanity, Doubt

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• That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.

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  Buddhism, Dark, White

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• The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

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  Buddhism, Frustration, Humanity

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• Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

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  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

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  Buddhism, Toxic Waste, People

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• They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

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  Book, Buddhism, Humanity

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• In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.

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  Buddhism, Clouds, Self

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• Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.

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  Religious, Drama, Philosophy

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• The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

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  New York, Buddhism, Average

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• What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

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  Buddhism, Simple, Humanity

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• When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.

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  Hero, Buddhism, Hands

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• It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

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  Buddhism, Humanity, Pay

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• At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

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  Buddhism, Opportunity, Play

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• The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

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  Buddhism, Clouds, People

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• The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick up so many pollutants that you'll become more toxic.

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  Buddhism, Humanity, Toxic

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• When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

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  Buddhism, Cities, Humanity

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• Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.

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  Powerful, Buddhism, Humanity

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• A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.

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  Buddhism, Practice, Other Worlds

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• It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

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  Dog, Buddhism, Weekend

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• Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.

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  Stars, Buddhism, Night

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• There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

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  Buddhism, Humanity, Responsible

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• With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.

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  Country, School, Buddhism

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