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“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations”

World Long Remember Universe House Rooms Land Creation Ignorance Planets Huge Buddhism Standing Closets Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

World Believe Earth Humanity Teach Environment Mystery Planets Buddhism Enlightenment Welcome Laughed Hostile Planet Earth Persecuted Scorned

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.”

Humanity Environment Cutting Planets Buddhism Species Destroyed Oblivion Indication Sloppiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.”

World War Humanity Stage Planets Buddhism Evolution Destruction Majority Theme Dominant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.”

People Mind War States Humanity Planets Buddhism Destruction Ultimate Blow State Of Mind Preparing Nuclear War

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.”

Humanity Strong Planets Buddhism Weak Fear Not

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.”

“The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.”

Ifs World Way Today Earth Humanity Cities New York Planets Buddhism Average Enlightened New York City Planet Earth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.”

Stills Earth Humanity Powerful Planets Buddhism Areas Woods Heal Surviving Encroachment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.”

People Way Inspirational Turns Events Planets Buddhism Circumstances Quiet Majority Painful Live Life Harsh Desperation Our Planet Quiet Desperation Painful Life

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

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

“There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.”

People Inspirational Running Life Is Missing Planets Inspirational Life Buddhism Beauty Of Life

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

“The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.”

People Inspirational Beautiful Universe Principles Planets Buddhism Reflection Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to travel there. Most of the worlds are non-physical. And it's all God; it's all eternity”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Inwardly the sun also has an energy field, it has an aura, so does the earth, so does the moon, and so do all the planets. We're affected by those auras. It's not something that you really want to reason out.”

Want Doe Reason Earth Energy Sun Fields Planets Buddhism Moon Affected Auras Energy Fields

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.”

Ifs Whole Success Careers Planets Buddhism Succeed Ridiculous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.”

People World Today Success Space Careers Particular Planets Buddhism Woods Forests Old Days Trespassing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that enable us to get back in touch with our deepest innermost feelings.”

Mind Feelings Body Healing Special Planets Buddhism Connections Get Back Renewal Our Planet Special Places Mind Body Mind Body Connection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.”

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life