Etiquette Quotes - Page 5

• Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agreement, Complaining, Administration

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• Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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• Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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• If you respect it in others, you respect it in yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Ifs

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• Don't preach about meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Believe

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• One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Excellence

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• This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone who wants everything done for them. It's not for the one who just wants to stare with that fixed dog-like devotion towards the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Teacher, Buddhist

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• Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

  Judith Martin

  Law, People, Missing

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Personality, Twenties

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• Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.

  Margaret Visser

  Determination, Animal, Fire

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Lineage

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• Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Block

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• Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Cake

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• How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Fun

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• If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humility, Buddhism

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• Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they feel that makes them learn more quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhist

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• The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Trying

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