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“There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.”

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Author:Joan Halifax

“You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.”

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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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz