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Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
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Perceive
Perception
Power
Without
Life

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Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.
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We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.
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People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.
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Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.
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The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?
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I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.
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The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.
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