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“They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.”

Ifs Heart Balance Enlightenment Empowerment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.”

Ifs Way Use Courses Winning Balance Battle Enlightenment Strategy Inevitable Confrontation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.”

Long Remember Women Balance Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.”

Men Believe Belief Women Realizing Attention Balance Ego Essentials Enlightenment Superiors Permit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.”

Men World Women Balance Enlightenment Rejects

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted in the middle. Balance is appropriate, not too tight, not too loose, the Middle Way as we call it in Buddhist dharma teachings.”

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Author:Surya Das

“I think that what we need is a balance between men and women. I don't believe in the value of the matriarchy as a model for human organizations any more than I believe in the value of patriarchy as a successful model. I think that what we need is a balance of male and female, the yin and the yang, the tantric union of god and goddess, enlightenment of the individual.”

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Author:James Wasserman

“Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.”

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Author:Dan Brown

“The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.”

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Author:Adyashanti

“Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.”

Source: The Portable Mark Twain

“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.”

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Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada