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Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment.

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
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Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.
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The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.
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You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.
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The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.
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The ashram is where everyone lives in the same building or on the same grounds. You feel that it's selfish for you to devote your life to one person. You don't just love the one, you love the many also.
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You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.
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Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.
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As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
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Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.
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Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.
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Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.
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When you're humble it's like wearing a beautiful flower. It inspires others. It generates energy and power.
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Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
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Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.
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The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.
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Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.
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Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.
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