Buddhism Quotes - Page 11

• People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent and unenlightened, although they often claim to be enlightened teachers who are disincarnate. These low-vibe beings seek life-force.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Body

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• To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light

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• The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, War, Character

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• There are places where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in certain places. We call them places of power. If you spend time in these places, it increases your vibratory power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Chakra, Increase, Certain

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• We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.

  Selma Blair

  Judging, Christianity, Judaism

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• Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Rip, Mean

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether a person has a lot of money or a little bit of money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Matter, Rama

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• The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.

  Frederick Lenz

  Would Be, Rama, Financial

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• Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Ideas

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• I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lovely, Danger, Certain

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• My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Encounters, Resistance

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• I don't think there is anyone in public life today who can escape the inevitable onslaught of the media. It seeks to pry into and often grossly distort aspects of one's personal and professional life. I guess it just comes with the territory.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Media, Territory

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• When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Media, Unhappy, Stories

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• I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ironic, Stories, Rama

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• Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Woods, Middle

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• Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Personality, Dresses, Way

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• I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Philosophy, Believe

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• Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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• Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and tend to avoid the trendy. I think that it's good to be chic when possible because it is more inaccessible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Thinking, Energy

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• If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Fun, Pain

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• There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Needs, Littles

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• One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sweet, Science, Names

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• Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feel Better, Science, Logic

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• There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there are some.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Other Worlds, Countries Of The World

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