Rama Quotes - Page 13

• Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Children, House

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Father, Morality

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Interesting, Parent, Elements

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

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Strange Places, Strange

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• I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Generations, Benefits, Exploration

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• I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Book, Quiet

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• I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Father, People

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• I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, School, Careers

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• I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Opposites, People

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• My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Reason

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• Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Differences

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• I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Uplifting, Levels, Good Times

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• As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, Wonderful, Grew

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• I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Community, Definitions

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• One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Enlightenment

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• There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Back When

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• Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Successful, People

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• There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Actors, Today

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• Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Warrior, Actors, Fields

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• I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.

  Frederick Lenz

  I Can

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• Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner strength which I, in turn, have attempted to communicate to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Struggle, Buddhism, Negativity

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• I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I am used to dealing with pain. Or perhaps I adjusted to pain because there has been a great deal of it in my life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Artist

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• I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Pain, Buddhism

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