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Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

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
Raises
Buddhism
Pure
Spotless
Nature
Pristine
Association
Drag
Purity
Raise

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The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.
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Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.
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Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
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Anything but enlightenment is pure pain it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.
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As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.
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We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
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Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.
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Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.
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The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.
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Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
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Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!
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Everyone is growing and developing. Everyone has to go through a trial and eror process of finding what is right.
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