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Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

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
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It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.
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Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.
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Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.
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This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!
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