Rama Quotes - Page 4

• I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Years, Space

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• I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Book, People

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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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

  Frederick Lenz

  Smart, School, Honor

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• My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Endless, Dependent

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• I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Numbers, Different

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• I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Appropriate, Depends

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• I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.

  Frederick Lenz

  Night, Bed, Next

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• I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn't read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Karma, Meditation

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• I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a technical scuba diver. That is to say, I am involved with decompression diving where we dive to depths of 300 plus feet. But I was also recently certified for the Atlantis rebreather, where we dive to shallower depths ranging from about 60-130 feet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feet, Depth, Diving

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• I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Australia, Fiji, Hawaii

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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 go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snowboarding, Mind, Diving

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• I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Mountain, Watches

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• I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

  Frederick Lenz

  Issues, Tacky, Sexuality

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Darkness, Found

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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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• 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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• 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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