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“When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.”

Want Trying Wisdom Desire Answers Buddhism Eternity What You Want Frustration Conform

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.”

World Desire Humanity Steps Middle This World Buddhism Evolution Kings Fulfillment Frustration Burgers Burger King

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

“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.”

People Inspirational Feels Believe Persons Desire Buddhism Sensitive Frustration Sensitive Person Anger And Frustration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”

“Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.”

Want Mind Stills Desire Overcoming Filled Attraction Frustration Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.”

States Philosophy Body Pain Political Desire Fall Forget Pleasure Movement Ignorance Illusion Caught Frustration Caught Up Political Movements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.”

Ifs Spiritual Desire Waiting Forever Study Acceptance Buddhism Gods Will Rising Frustration Rise Above Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.”

Self Desire Hate Secret Materials Ambition Yoga Possession Karma Vanity Frustration Insecurity Egotism Karma Yoga Material Possessions Secret Desire

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.”

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.”

Desire Deals Path Meditation Offers Frustration Concentration Aversion Operating Systems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.”

Desire Losing Frustration Mysticism Losing Power Anger And Frustration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.”

Thinking Men Want Firsts Desire Method Ill Contrary Tyranny Oppression Sufficient Frustration Attributes Moderation Oppressors Rigor

Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke