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If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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