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“Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.”

Inspirational Use Happens Beautiful Inspirational Life Buddhism Exciting Determine Boring Active Horrible

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.”

Use Happens Secret Study Discipline Active Things Happen Introduction Make Things Happen

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.”

“Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.”

Happens Choices Chance Love Is Active Encounters Construction

Author:Masha Tupitsyn