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“Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”

Mind Mean States Forget Ignorance Illusion Seconds State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.”

Mind Mean States Might Remember Nice Higher Painful State Of Mind Reincarnation Previous Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.”

Mind Mean States Feelings Happens Action Causes Views Karma State Of Mind Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.”

Mind Mean States Enlightenment Saint Heavenly State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.”

Mind Mean States Students Enlightenment State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”

“There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.”

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Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.”

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Book:The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel