“We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.” WorldBelieveEarthHumanityTeachEnvironmentMysteryPlanetsBuddhismEnlightenmentWelcomeLaughedHostilePlanet EarthPersecutedScorned Author:Frederick Lenz
“It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.” WayYearsBelieveHumanitySoundBuddhismDon't BelieveI RealizedCalifornia Author:Frederick Lenz
“Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.” ThinkingWorldYearsBelieveEnoughHealthBuddhismStrongestAthleticsVitamins Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.” PeopleInspirationalFeelsBelievePersonsDesireBuddhismSensitiveFrustrationSensitive PersonAnger And Frustration Author:Frederick Lenz
“How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.” WantInspirationalBelieveWellsAbilityBuddhismPsychicsPsychic Abilities Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.” WorldInspirationalBelieveEvilForceDarkBuddhismSucceedNonsenseDark Forces Author:Frederick Lenz
“Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.” ThinkingKnowsShouldBelieveRealityBuddhismTruth IsSacredScriptureBuddhistMeant To BeContemplatingSacred Scripture Author:Ajahn Sumedho
“When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.” KnowsBelieveHumilityBuddhismPraiseBlameDon't BelieveComplimentCompliments You Author:Frederick Lenz
“What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought.” ThinkingBelieveMatterEnergyLinesHavensBuddhismRationalCuriousBehaveEstablishmentWhat MattersIrrationalRamaSold OutRational Thought Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.” PeopleBelieveFormBuddhismMassLifestyleRamaBrainwashing Author:Frederick Lenz
“I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.” PeopleTryingBelieveSelfPhilosophyJobsTeachTaughtBuddhismDiscoveryMethodTrainSelf DiscoveryRamaImpart Author:Frederick Lenz
“In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.” BelievePhilosophyUniverseBuddhismSamsara Author:Frederick Lenz
“Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.” BelieveHardBigsDealsEmotionTeacherHumilityBuddhismBuddhistBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouBig DealEtiquetteFixation Author:Frederick Lenz
“I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.” BelieveDoeHappensSuccessWinningI BelieveLosesAttitudeCareersBuddhismLosingCleanDon't BelieveI Believe InBad Attitude Author:Frederick Lenz