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What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Spend
Focus
Hours
Meditating
Two
Focusing
Light
Eventually
Become
Buddhism
Hour
Meditation

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