Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 161

• We hide from ourselves by being with others.

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  Nature, Buddhism

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• Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Profound

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• Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Green World

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• Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come and aid you when you've reached that critical moment and you're at a crossroads of knowledge.

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  Strong, Nature, Buddhism

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• I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Tree

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• You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

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  Nature, Real, Buddhism

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• If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Cities

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• It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.

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  Being Yourself, Nature, Buddhism

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• It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Important

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• It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

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  Dream, Nature, Buddhism

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• As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.

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  Nature, Powerful, Buddhism

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• We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Animal

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• You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Agreement

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• You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

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  Nature, Buddhism, Cities

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• Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?

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  Sex, Buddhism, Loss

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• You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?

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  Couple, Buddhism, White

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• How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.

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  Buddhism, Life Is, Creation

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• The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Men

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• Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

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  Buddhism, Focus, Culture

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• This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

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  Buddhism, Culture, Way

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• I've never seen a society that thinks about sex so much and gets so little!

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  Sex, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

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  Buddhism, People, Path

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• Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

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  Fun, Buddhism, Focus

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• Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

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  Buddhism, Men, Sexuality

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• Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

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  Buddhism, Sexuality, Terrified

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