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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
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
World
Buddhism
Science
Way
Think
Thinking

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If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.
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We feel crowded by other people we feel crowded by social rules we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
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Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.
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Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.
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Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.
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What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.
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I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.
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To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.
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The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.
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Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.
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Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.
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I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.
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When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.
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Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.
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As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.
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There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.
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In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.
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