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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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“You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.”

Ifs Thinking Want Universe Term Illusion Labels Mysticism You Choose

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.”

Ifs Enough Certain Winning Loses Mysticism Personal Power

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“We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.”

Ifs May Littles Rooms Gains Clean Tiny Mysticism Impeccable Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .”

Ifs Wells Poor Rooms Attention Fields Yoga Giants Mysticism Hooked Transient Mansions Gaining Power

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“It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?”

Ifs Order Asks Our Lives Mysticism Draining Gaining Power

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“If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?”

Ifs Rate Climbs Mysticism Gaining Power

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“If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house.”

Ifs Life Is House Behinds Fields Findings Mysticism Gaining Power

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“The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution.”

Ifs Way Long Might Powerful Awareness Evolution Access Mysticism Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.”

Ifs Trying Two Levels Increase Mysticism Personal Power Gaining Power Navel

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“Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.”

Ifs Body Hours Focus Buddhism Your Body Release Spheres Gaining Power Chakra Meditation Navel

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“If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.”

Ifs Humans Important Enough Dies Human Beings Levels Car Disease Losing Lows Picks Accidents Mysticism Car Accident Losing Power Get Low

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“Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.”

Ifs Giving Mind Choices Opportunity Levels Losing Lows Mysticism Drains Choices You Make Losing Power

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“When you deal with people, it tends to drag your energy down - if those people are in a lower auric state than you. If you meditate and they don't, then by the end of the day you tend to be more drained.”

People Ifs Ends States Energy Deals Losing The End Of The Day Mysticism Drag Drained Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically.”

Ifs Real Enough Problem Energy Loss Losing Mysticism Real Problems Losing Power

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“If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.”

Ifs Levels Emotion Losing Lows Upset Mysticism Indulge Stressful Not Happy Indulge In Sloppy Losing Power

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“If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.”

People Ifs Persons Successful Losing Mysticism Drains Successful Person Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Littles Stars Type Losing Mysticism Movie Star Losing Power Groupie

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“If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.”

Ifs Mean Care Losing Mysticism Over You Losing Power

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“Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.”

Ifs Mind States Attention Drink Losing Drinking Alcohol Defined Mysticism State Of Mind Drinking Alcohol Fuzzy Losing Power

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“Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.”

People Ifs Form Levels Too Much Awareness Losing Mysticism Psychics Drains Sponges Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.”

Ifs Needs Trying Losing Mysticism Our Relationship Remedy Relationships With Others Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy.”

Ifs Want Should Doe Certain Energy Sex Realizing Amount Higher Losing Mysticism Drains Occult Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower power levels, then you have to be aware of that and keep your awareness very much within.”

People Ifs Different Levels Awareness Office Losing Mysticism End Times Spend Time Daily Living Losing Power

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“Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Limits Losing Enlightened Mysticism Losing Power

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“If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away.”

Ifs Losing Mysticism Losing Power

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“If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.”

Ifs Needs Use Running Buddhism

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“If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.”

Ifs Trying Too Much Buddhism Too Much Power

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“It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you had enough power, you could unlock your own personal power - you wouldn't need to control others.”

People Ifs Needs Reason Enough Buddhism Wraps Had Enough Personal Power

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“Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.”

Ifs Thinking Winning Masters Buddhism Battle Sunlight Deluded Don Juan Juan Zen Master

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“If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.”

Ifs Self Winning Practice Meditation Buddhism Battle Acquire Inquiry

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“If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.”

Ifs Buddhism Abuse Burned

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“If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along.”

Ifs World Mind Mean Sometimes Universe Strong Deals Attention Buddhism Bounds Blow Inner World

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“There are places where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in certain places. We call them places of power. If you spend time in these places, it increases your vibratory power.”

Ifs Certain Buddhism Increase End Times Spend Time Chakra

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“When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.”

Ifs Able Buddhism Quiet Receptive

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“If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.”

Ifs Way Light Might Buddhism Higher Gains Aids Encounters

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“When you go to a power spot, and you think negative or depressing thoughts they tend to grow stronger. Whereas, if you think more positive, happier thoughts, they tend to increase in strength.”

Ifs Thinking Grows Buddhism Negative Increase Stronger Spots Depressing

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“You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak.”

Ifs Different Speak Easy Buddhism Type Crosses Desert Planes

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“If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present.”

Ifs World Light Buddhism Higher Dimensions Our World Magnificent

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“If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.”

People Ifs World Crazy This World Buddhism Negative Being There Demonic Crossover

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“If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.”

Ifs Levels Too Much Buddhism Annoying

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“Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can "see" they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity.”

Ifs Feelings Earth Humanity Watches Buddhism Negative Rate Twists Vibrate

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“If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to them when your power is up. It is like going to war. You have got to be ready if you are going to survive.”

Ifs Way War Ready Buddhism Negative Conservative Going To War

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“If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.”

Ifs Needs Buddhism Healthy Seeking Radiant Healthy And Happy

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“It's good to visit Hawaii if you're seeking power. You don't really need to live here. Just to come over for a week is enough. Switzerland is another spot like this. It's very similar. These are the two clearest spots, Switzerland and Hawaii.”

Ifs Needs Two Enough Week Buddhism Seeking Spots Hawaii Switzerland

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“In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.”

Ifs World Order Buddhism Superstitions World Order

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“If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.”

Ifs Crazy Buddhism Collapse Psychotic

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“You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.”

Ifs World Needs Reason Buddhism Institutions Locks

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“If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.”

Ifs World Understanding Consciousness Mystery Awareness Buddhism

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“You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.”

Ifs Would Be Buddhism Capable

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“When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.”

People Ifs Knows Want Feels Deals Buddhism Command Plunge

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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