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Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

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
California
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What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.
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When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions.
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Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.
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