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I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

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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Remarkable
Extremes
Pain
Living
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Ecstasy

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All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.
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No matter which way you turn ... there's nothing but illuison.
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There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.
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Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.
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Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.
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The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
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Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them they devastate their own consciousness and their own lives.
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There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
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We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.
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I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.
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People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.
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Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.
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