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Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.
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Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.
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They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.
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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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As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.
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So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.
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Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.
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If you just keep giving constantly, if you don't really take thought of your own welfare and your own awareness, but just give, beyond exhaustion - then your life will always be a constant progression.
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You don't need a special task. Every task is special.
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There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.
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You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.
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Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.
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Power itself is simply a word to describe attention, awareness, which embodies all things.
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All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.
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