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At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.
Frederick Lenz
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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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California
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Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.
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Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.
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If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.
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When you meditate, you will care more for those around you and you will be able to do more for them, as your own awareness advances. Everyone who comes into your field of energy is positively influenced.
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Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.
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Eternity does nothing but give.
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If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.
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In order to effectively interlock with higher spheres of mind and attention, you must have tremendous balance and control. You learn that it is more fun to have control than not to.
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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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