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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.”

Important Energy Avoiding Drains

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“While it is possible to create all your own energy, most people feed off the energy of others. If you could see on multiple planes of attention you would be astonished!”

People Ifs Would Be Energy Attention Planes Multiple

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“Energy is food. Most people on earth feed on each other's energy, all of the time, seven days a week. The more energy you have, the more interested parties there will be in having lunch.”

People Earth Energy Party Week Seven Lunch Seven Days

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“Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.”

People World Want Humans Games Energy Human Beings Pleasure Powerful Journey After Death Other Worlds Drains Skillful

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“Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good?”

Energy Forget Good And Bad Rabbits Coyotes Manipulator

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“There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field.”

People Way Want Two Order Energy Attention Fields Two Ways Drains

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“It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.”

Done Energy Emotional

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“In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.”

People Energy Contact Doorways Abusive

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“If one party is trusting, it is very easy during sex for the other party to format someone, to put thoughts in their mind, to jam their consciousness or attention, to lower their energy or just take power from them.”

Ifs Mind Energy Sex Easy Party Attention Consciousness Jam Format

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“Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way most people use sexual energy is to hook somebody, to wrap them.”

People Ifs Way Use Energy Hurt Hook Wraps

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“Some people use the sexual energy particularly during intercourse to take personal power from each other.”

People Use Energy Intercourse Personal Power

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“Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Dream Energy Practice Morning Meditation Bed Negative Increase Planes Good Man Auras Negative Energy Manipulator

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“It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.”

People Knows Energy Dangerous Assumption Sophisticated Drains

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“Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.”

Want Looks Hard Energy Loss Honest Being Honest

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“Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.”

People Energy Strong Realizing Deals Greater Emotional Amount Connections Associates Psychics Emotional Connection Strong Emotional

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“People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.”

People Use Energy Position Projects Victim Destructive Capture Grey Snakes Drains

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“Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.”

People World Made Reason Past Energy Lines Negative Dependent Short Life Physical Health Negative Energy

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“When something goes wrong with the body of energy that surrounds and protects your physical body, it will later show up in your physical body. The problem always starts in the subtle physical, and then manifests in the physical.”

Shows Problem Body Energy Protect Subtle Surround Physical Body

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“When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.”

People Thinking Humans Problem Body Form Energy Too Much Hair Negative Skins Subtle Pulling Suitable Negative Thoughts Human Form Deterioration Bad Energy

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“If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.”

Ifs Want Real Remember Energy Easy Manipulate Drains Do It Yourself Manipulator

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“Be conscious of the way people take your energy and learn how to stop it. Accept that this goes on. Observe how you feel around other people.”

People Way Feels Energy Accepting Goes On Conscious How You Feel

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“At the umbilical region we actually network with people. Picture that you are cutting those cords to everyone you know. It doesn't mean you don't love them; you are just cutting down on the negative energy pickup from people.”

People Knows Mean Energy Cutting Negative Regions Cords Negative Energy Pickups Cutting Down

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“How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you? Are you thinking of them negatively? Does your energy drop when you stop seeing them?”

Ifs Thinking Doe Energy Seeing Dependent Draining

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“Every living being is psychic. Whether or not we are consciously aware of it, we feel vibrations and energies coming to us from other people all the time. The vast majority of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel aren't your own.”

People Thinking Feels Energy Emotion Majority Psychics Vibrations

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“There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.”

People Ifs Earth Energy Enlightenment Picks Focused Billions Impression

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“To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.”

Use Energy Involved Battle Ridiculous Get Involved

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“Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.”

Art Matter Use Winning Energy Hurt Battle Art Is Intelligent Who You Are Martial Arts Avoiding

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“People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.”

People Mind Use Energy Figures Defeat Blow Opponents Aggressive

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“You have to be very, very careful not to pick up too much of the lower energies, the toxic energies, because they'll make you very ill. They can kill you. They can cause cancer, debilitative diseases of all types.”

Energy Causes Too Much Type Disease Picks Ill Cancer Careful Toxic

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“All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.”

Ifs World Trying Different Wisdom Lying Energy Failing Buddhism Planes Analysis Representation Symbolic Different Worlds

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“The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly.”

Way Feels States Wisdom Moving Energy Attention Taught Masters Buddhism Sitting

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“What is essential is to draw the energy of love from your heart and bring it into your mind, as San Exubere said: "it is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."”

Mind Heart Said Eye Energy Buddhism Balance Essentials Draws Invisible

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“Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.”

Trying Energy Inspire Buddhism Balance Ego Aids Manipulate Tripping

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“You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.”

Needs Jobs Energy Careers Focus Strange Buddhism Balance Picks Focused Psychics

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“The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.”

Humans Light Form Joy Certain Energy Clear Buddhism Balance Higher Rate Human Life Suitable Vibrate

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“Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.”

Giving Moving Science Energy Awareness Buddhism All Things Patterns Shifting Continuity Moving In

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“Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.”

Stills Light Life Is Energy Lines Awareness Buddhism Pure Fiber

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“All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.”

Different Body Past Energy Ability Practice Awareness Buddhism Access This Life Planes Linked Past Life Auras

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“This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.”

World Way Age Humanity Energy Buddhism Other Worlds Electrical Atomic Energy Electrical Energy

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“You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.”

Feels Looks Littles Earth Night Humanity Energy Stars Sky Wind Buddhism Purity Dots

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“You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.”

Ifs Thinking Way Doe Whole Humanity Universe Energy Effects Planets Buddhism Subtle Progressive Positive Thoughts Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

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“Love is light in the inner worlds; it is energy, a luminescent energy that is the basis of all creation. Love is the only thing in this world that is worthwhile because it is the only thing in this world that is eternal.”

World Light Happiness Energy Love Is Creation This World Buddhism Eternal Bases Worthwhile Inner World

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“Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.”

People Different Self Happiness Form Energy Levels Class Study Crazy Buddhism Yoga Discovery Raises Calm Self Discovery Balanced Introspective Energy Levels

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“If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.”

People Ifs Energy Nature Realizing Walks Cities Buddhism Spots Sensitive Parks Thrive Get Away Make You Happy Walks In The Park

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“Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.”

Doe Certain Energy Sex Buddhism Amount Enlightenment Sexuality Drains Occult

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“In terms of spiritual development, it's not a big deal whether you have sex or not, the question is more of who you have sex with and what their energy is doing to you.”

Bigs Spiritual Energy Sex Term Deals Buddhism Development Sexuality Big Deal Spiritual Development

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“Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.”

Humans Persons Energy Human Beings Buddhism Increase Careful Sexuality Contact Intimate Confused Awakened Deluded Losing Power

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“Women tend to open themselves up more during sex. Because their subtle physical bodies are so much more sensitive they tend to pick up the total energy of the man they have sex with.”

Men Body Energy Sex He Man Buddhism Picks Sexuality Sensitive Subtle Physical Body

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“Many men have deep rooted problems regarding the status of women, and during sex these problems come out. They consciously or unconsciously project anger and hate towards women they have sex with. This energy enters a woman's subtle physical body and damages it.”

Men Problem Body Hate Energy Sex Buddhism Projects Sexuality Damage Subtle Rooted Physical Body

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“Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.”

People Winning Energy Practice Meditation Health Buddhism Mindfulness Ridiculous Athletics Personal Power Draining Ridiculous Things

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About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
Known for: Author
Quotes: 4397

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