Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 82

• I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

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  Mother, Fashion, Father

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• I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

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  Strong, Father, Rama

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• It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.

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  Interesting, Parent, Elements

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• When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.

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  Dream, Reality, People

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• While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets.

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  Children, Party, Feet

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• I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

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  Different, Rama

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• At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

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  Children, Age, World

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• School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

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  School, Strange Places, Rama

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• They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

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  World, Rama, Description

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• I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

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  School, World, Rama

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• I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

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  People, World, Want

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• In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

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  Home, America, Hatred

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• I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

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  Reading, School, Loving Friends

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• I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

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  Teacher, Rama, Realizing

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• I leaned from my friends in school. I had lots of friends; yet I was very indrawn.

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  School, Lots Of Friends, Rama

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• I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

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  Children, School, Rama

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• In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

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  Drama, School, Contemporary Fiction

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• I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

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  Art, Love Is, Land

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• In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

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  Book, Reading, Fiction

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• Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

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  School, College, Numbers

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• I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

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  Growing Up, Way, Rama

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• I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.

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  Thinking, Rama, Wonderful

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• The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

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  Self, Giving, Rama

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• For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.

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  Powerful, Men, Rama

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• Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

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  Art, Rama, Sexuality

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