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• Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Desire

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• Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Giving, Mind

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• The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Doe, Body

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• There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Gone, Next

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• You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Character, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.434

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• There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Connections, Passionate

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Unhappy

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• For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.

  Werner Herzog

  Soul, Mind, Desert

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Paul Cronin, 2002.

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• With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Powerful, Practice, Creative

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• An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Perception, Mind

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• An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Joy, Mind

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• Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Mind, Age

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• The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Perception, Mind

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• Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Mind, Birth

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• The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Real, Mind

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• Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Levels, Different

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• If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.

  Frederick Lenz

  Issues, Mind, States

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• Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Perception, Mind

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• Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

  Louis Simpson

  Creativity, Character, Views

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• It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

  Doris Lessing

  Years, Mind, Events

  Doris Lessing (2012). “Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.

  Deborah Butterfield

  Horse, Real, Moving

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• Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Heaven, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Mind, States

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• You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Views, Mind

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