Rama Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, World, Accepting

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• I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, World, Want

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• In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, America, Hatred

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• Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, College, Numbers

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• I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

  Frederick Lenz

  Vision, Musician, Hendrix

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• In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Fiction

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• I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Love Is, Land

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• I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, People, World

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• In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Drama, School, Contemporary Fiction

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• I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, School, Deals

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• I leaned from my friends in school. I had lots of friends; yet I was very indrawn.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Lots Of Friends, My Friends

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• I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Realizing, Exceptional

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• I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reading, School, Loving Friends

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• Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Winning, Men, Faithful Servants

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Darkness, Found

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• In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Problem, Environment

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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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• When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body, but the spirit has left. It has gone everywhere or nowhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different, Gone, World

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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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• 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 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 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 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 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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