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“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.”

Thinking Mind States Energy Process Worry Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Silly State Of Mind Slow Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

Giving Mind Different States Facts Moving Joy Lost Levels Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Excellence State Of Mind Moving In

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.”

People Mind States Bigs Eye Suffering Swimming State Of Mind Pool Underwater Clouded Swimming Pool

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.”

Mind States Reason Ignorance Buddhism Complicated State Of Mind Premises

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

World Mind States Universe Ignorance Ego Appearance Mediums Perceive Cycles Manifest State Of Mind Rebirth Samsara

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

“Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.”

Mind Different States Whole Shows Awareness State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.”

Mind States Body Moving Process State Of Mind Reincarnation

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

“The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.”

Mind States Suffering Aspect State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.”

Giving Mind States Past Next This Life State Of Mind Reincarnation Boost Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.”

Mind Different States Body Form Forever Buddhism Essence State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.”

Mind States Patterns Karma State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.”

Mind Different States Opportunity Views Higher Karma State Of Mind Different Views All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.”

Ifs Mind Kind States Karma Unhappy State Of Mind Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.”

Way Mind States Action Certain Causes Results Bears Ultimate Karma State Of Mind

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

“It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.”

Way Mind States Higher Karma State Of Mind Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.”

Giving Mind Persons States Lifetime Karma Instant State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.”

Way Mind States Becoming Bounds Selfish Karma Nervous Upset Destructive Finding Yourself State Of Mind Anxious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.”

Mind States Action Saws Higher Karma State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Amount Periods Lifetime Saint Karma Lovely State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.”

Mind States Desire Higher Karma Enlightened State Of Mind Rebirth Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.”

Giving Mind States Death Dies Born State Of Mind Location

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.”

Mind Doe States Body State Of Mind Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.”

Mind States Next Gone Thousand Ten Lifetime State Of Mind Rebirth Culmination Next Lifetime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.”

Mind States Connections Passionate State Of Mind Lack Of Confidence

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.”

Source: The Path to Enlightenment

“In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.”

Thinking Way Mind States Problem Certain Unhappy Daily Life State Of Mind Way Of Thinking

Author:Dalai Lama

“For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.”

Mind Humans Soul States Shows Film Forests Desert Landscape Visible State Of Mind Representation Human Soul

Author:Werner Herzog

“With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.”

Mind States Spirit Values Powerful Consciousness Practice Creative Meditation Materials Contact Peaceful Bliss State Of Mind Deep Meditation

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”

People World Mind Littles States Whole Earth Felt Cities Loneliness Planets Window Seven Connected Billions State Of Mind Location Centre

Author:Chris Hadfield

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.”

“Happiness is a state of mind.”

Life Mind States State Of Mind

Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.”

“Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”

Mind States Unhappy State Of Mind

Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.”

Mind States Enlightenment State Of Mind All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.”

People World Mind States Dream Reality Life Is Perfect Seeing Enlightenment Direct State Of Mind Just A Dream

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

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

“Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.”

Mind States Forever Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind Stillness Absorption

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

“It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.”

Mind States Happens Moving Levels Awareness Enlightenment Enlightened State Of Mind Unlikely

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness”

Mind Self States Ability Awareness Thousand Ten Enlightenment 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.”

Feels Mind Mean States Natural Wonder Enlightenment Infinite Buddhist State Of Mind Unusual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.”

Mind States Dream Enlightenment Eternity Wake Up State Of Mind

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

“When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.”

Mind Different States Moving Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind Do It Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.”

Mind Persons Hard States Would Be Teacher Car Thousand Ten Enlightened State Of Mind Shopping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.”

Mind Looks States Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be sensitive to that. Without being flaky and devotional, develop respect for the teacher, just as the teacher respects you.”

Mind Sometimes States Moving Teacher Sensitive Enlightened State Of Mind Devotional

Author:Frederick Lenz

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