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Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
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The dream appears to be real. It does really seem we are here in this world but this is not so.
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Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.
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We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.
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Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.
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Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.
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In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.
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Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality.
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You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.
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You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.
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Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
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I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.
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Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.
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Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.
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A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.
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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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