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Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.
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You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.
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Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.
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Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them they devastate their own consciousness and their own lives.
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We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.
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I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.
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We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.
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The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.
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The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy.
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The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.
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We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
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Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.
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