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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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In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.
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It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.
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How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.
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The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.
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Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.
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