Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 9

• A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• It's very important where you live. Because where you live, the energies make it easier or more difficult to dream. In certain places dreams are very manifest and very strong. So you should always pick a place to live that's good to dream in. One of the best places to dream is by the ocean.

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  Dream, Strong, Ocean

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• My problem with L. A. was that I could see the air I was breathing, I don't particularly like crowds, and I was much better at snowboarding than I was at surfing.

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  Air, Snowboarding, Breathing

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• I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

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  Buddhism, Mind, Attention

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• The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.

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  Children, Practice, Meditation

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• Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

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  Pain, Eye, Compassion

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• You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

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  Compassion, Reverence For Life, Reverence

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• As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.

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  Hate, Buddhism, Compassion

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

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  Art, Health, Fighting

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• When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

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  Inspirational, Children, Buddhism

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• When we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Buddhism

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• Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Knowledge And Power

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• You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Each Day

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• Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

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  Inspirational, Home, Buddhism

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• Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Answers

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• We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Taste

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• There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Winning

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• There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.

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  Nice, Buddhism, Names

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• All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

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  Buddhism, Past, Dna

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• Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced you will become.

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  Meditation, Faster, Knowledgeable

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• Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.

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  Fun, Swim, Looks

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• Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.

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  Frustration, Mind, Desire

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• Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.

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  Beautiful, Buddhism, Meditation

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