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I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
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Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.
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Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.
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Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.
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Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
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Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.
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If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.
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Whatever you want you can get, when you understand the secret of will. But wisdom is needed so that you do not use your will abusively because you'll get hurt.
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Tragedy is the violation of love.
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You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.
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Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.
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Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.
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Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.
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Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.
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To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.
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