Rama Quotes - Page 3

• La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

  Maria Bethania

  Learning, Branches, Manners

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• The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Giving, Meditation

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• My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, America, Europe

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• I found light in the darkness ... or it found me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Darkness, Found

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• Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama...or something.

  Daniel Palladino

  Girl, Jobs, College

  "Fictional character: Lorelai Gilmore". "Gilmore Girls/ Application Anxiety", October 2002.

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• I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Religious

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• I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Awkward, Special, Sometimes

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• I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Years, Meditation

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• I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Reading

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• Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

  Barry Mann

  Rams, Unanswered Questions, Lama

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• During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Psychics, Years

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• Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Years, Self

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• Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Age, Return

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• So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teaching, Process

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• At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Powerful

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• I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Self, Ordinary

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• From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perspective, Special, Age

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• In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Matter, Spirit

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• I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Conservative, Bohemian

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• At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, College, Teach

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• I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

  Frederick Lenz

  Luxury, Unhappy, Too Much

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• I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Feelings, Aspiration

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• I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Remarkable, Ecstasy

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• There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Miracle

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• Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Self, Littles

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