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I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.

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
California
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Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.
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Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.
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With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.
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There is no such thing as spiritual achievement it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.
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People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.
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Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.
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There is wisdom to loving.
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The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.
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