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The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.

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
Buddhism
Science
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The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.
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I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.
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Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
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Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.
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The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.
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I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.
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The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.
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The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.
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