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“You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.”

Ifs Might Choices Buddhism Balance Ego Illusion Eternity You Choose Wrong Choices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.”

Ifs Choices Levels Destiny Awareness Buddhism Karma Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.”

Way Action Choices Actors Health Buddhism Shapes Direct Guides Emptiness Inherent Athletics

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.”

Inspirational Persons Light Choices Military Buddhism Ocean Married Draws Crosses Enlightened Personal Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.”

Lying Desire Choices Buddhism Fool Liberation Fulfillment Dharma Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.”

Mind Choices Buddhism Absolutes Seats Drivers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.”

Action Desire Choices Difficult Buddhism Pure Liberation Purity Enslavement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”

Real Desire Choices Practice Ignorance Expression Buddhism Infinite Fruit Available Buddhist Recognition Vulnerability Affliction Scope Buddha Nature Infinite Potential Wrong Or Right

Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice or obnoxious, you might as well marry the wealthy one.”

People Ifs Men Wells Two Might Beautiful Success Choices Careers Nice Buddhism Wealthy Handsome Beautiful Women Obnoxious Two Choices Handsome Men

Author:Frederick Lenz