Spiritual Quotes - Page 37

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Rama, Process

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• I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Views, Abortion

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• In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope and a brighter view of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Adventure, Views

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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, Teacher, Hurt

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• I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Rights

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• Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rip, Mean, Buddhism

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• The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Interesting, Egotistical

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• Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Doctrine

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• Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, World, Easy

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• It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Definitions, Matter

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• But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Important, Relevant, Shows

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• A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Men, Boys

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• The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Character, People

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• In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Goes On

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Organization

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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

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humility, Buddhism

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• All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Warrior

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• Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhist, Philosophical

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• The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Degrees

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• Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Mean, Iron

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• Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Perception, Enlightenment

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• You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.

  John Derbyshire

  Kings, Thinking, Civilization

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• The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord.... Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual, as well as by the Lord's Temporal. The Church, indeed, was the bulwark of this base feudal claim.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Son, Law, Atheism

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