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If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God.

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
Yoga
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Vision
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Doorway
Giving
Doorways
Heart
Purely
Opens
Karma

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If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.
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Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
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Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.
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They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.
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Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.
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Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.
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It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness, the greed, the hate, and rejected it and tried to create something new. Their creation neither succeeded nor failed. It was another experience.
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To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.
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Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have you have exactly what you need.
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