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“Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.”

People Feels Kind Wisdom Lasts Form Suffering Universe Conditions Buddhism Perception Tired Unhappy Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.”

Desire Humanity Conditions Buddhism Prison Unhappy Frustration Humankind Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.”

People World Humanity Consciousness This World Buddhism Unhappy Miserable Ecstasy Pitiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.”

Book Humanity Theory Buddhism Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.”

People Knows Feels Littles Ideas Pain Happiness Suffering Break Buddhism Unhappy No Idea

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.”

Ifs Want Happiness Courses Buddhism Sitting Unhappy Not Happy Sitting Around Want To Be Happy Being Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.”

People Mean Happiness Buddhism Conscious Humble Excited Caring Unhappy Cosmic Passive Poignant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.”

Ifs Shows Happiness Games Doors Buddhism Picks Unhappy Make You Happy Game Shows Daily Experience

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.”

Ifs Humans Happiness Wife Buddhism Habit Husband Slave Bounds Unhappy Girlfriend Expensive Make You Happy Human Relations Human Relationships Junkie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Happiness Fall Masters Buddhism Rain Unhappy All Time Tragic Enlightened

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

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

“Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.”

Knows Happiness Know How Buddhism Unhappy Dependent Make You Happy How To Be Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.”

Way Light Happiness Seeing Conditions Buddhism Shadow Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.”

Mean Happiness Buddhism Negative Unhappy Discrimination Allowing Happy Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.”

Seems Happiness Easy Stuff Buddhism Waste Unhappy Courageous Jerk Be Courageous Lightness Weird Stuff

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.”

Trying Matter Happiness Practice Five Minutes Buddhism Bigger Unhappy Miserable Five Minutes Stop Trying Your Smile Just Smile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.”

People Inspirational Ignorance Buddhism Stuck Unhappy Cycles Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.”

People World Inspirational Humans Joy Human Beings This World Buddhism Capable Unhappy Spectrum Mundane Joy And Happiness Great Joy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.”

Ifs Inspirational Two Life Is Energy Levels Wonder Buddhism Lows Boring Endless Unhappy Gray Frustrating Energy Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.”

People Inspirational Looks Today Walks Buddhism Unhappy Hills Stressed Ghetto Not Happy Stressed Out Beverly Hills

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.”

Inspirational Ideas Happens Buddhism Shapes Perfection Angry Unhappy Frustrated Bent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.”

World Simple Practice Meditation Buddhism Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.”

Mind Night Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Unhappy Remove All Night Enjoyable Monitoring

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.”

Kind Matter Levels Attention Mistake Awareness Buddhism Lows No Matter What Fortune Unhappy All Kinds Good Fortune Dharma Low Level

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.”

Buddhism Disaster Unhappy Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.”

Lost Causes Teach Security Taught Buddhism Track Following Unhappy Impulse Restraint Craving Pointless

Author:Tiger Woods

“I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.”

World Should Buddhism Mets Unhappy Experts Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.”

Stories Individual Media Buddhism Type Unhappy Bitter Bent Rama Rating Boost Tabloids Circulation Innuendo

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.”

People Knows Energy Common Know How Buddhism Waste Increase Angry Unhappy Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Frederick Lenz