Enlightenment Quotes - Page 14

• Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.

  Frederick Lenz

  Husband, Women, Survival

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• If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Unity, Alliances

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• It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Radical Change, Normal

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• In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Fighting, Meditation

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• The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Average, Today

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• Women have very powerful second chakras, and the goal is to move that energy up and use it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Women, Moving

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• Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Application

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• For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Firsts, Possibility

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• I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Attention, Combat

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• Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Women, Use

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• More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Attention, Use

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• Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Spring, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Perfect, Doe

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• Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Krishna

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• The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reorganization, Body, Fields

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• To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Journey, Suffering

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• I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Thinking, Levels

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• Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Journey, Made

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• Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Inspire, Saint

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• So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, World, Nothingness

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• Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Guiding Principles, Self, Effort

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• Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Care, Want

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• Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Political, Clubs

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• Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Meditation, Path

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