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“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.”

People Thinking World Happiness Desire Causes Buddhism Type Fulfillment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.”

People Needs Mind Happiness Love You Buddhism Drink Drug Clarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.”

People Feels Stills Nature Walks Tree Fields Buddhism Ocean Eternity Grass Swim Bike Great Times Meadows Squirrels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.”

People Feels Nature Buddhism Mountain Ocean Lows Areas Population Desert Stillness End Times Spend Time Me Alone Alone Time Density Population Density

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.”

People Needs Real Nature Buddhism Fulfillment Stillness Recluse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.”

People Ifs Energy Nature Realizing Walks Cities Buddhism Spots Sensitive Parks Thrive Get Away Make You Happy Walks In The Park

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.”

People Knows Trying Humans Dream Nature Human Beings Buddhism Distracted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.”

People World Nature Levels Situation Judging Buddhism Civilization Healthy Green Agreement Unhealthy Green World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?”

People Giving Kind Form Used Term White Trouble Buddhism Couple Fit Various British Sexuality Drawing Temples Covered Erotic Statues Love Making Uptight Forms Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.”

People Persons Path Buddhism Sexuality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are.”

People Levels Buddhism Raises Intention Sexuality Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.”

People Littles Persons Numbers Buddhism Sexuality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.”

People Practice Buddhism Keys Return Expectations Investment Sexuality Miserable Our Relationship Avoiding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.”

People Giving Feels Should Buddhism Return Sexuality Love Someone When You Love Someone

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.”

People Trying Attitude Path Buddhism Sexuality Old People Path Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.”

People Men Heart Sex Buddhism Critical Sexuality Sensitive Selective

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.”

People Way Two Certain Term Buddhism Sexuality Balanced Reciprocity Using Me Balanced Relationship

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.”

People Two Together Can Do Design Buddhism Sexuality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.”

People Kind Soul Might Buddhism Sexuality Mates Soul Mate Connotation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.”

People Mind Spirit Term Powerful Health Buddhism Work Out Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.”

People Winning Energy Practice Meditation Health Buddhism Mindfulness Ridiculous Athletics Personal Power Draining Ridiculous Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.”

People Ifs Way Art Class Health Buddhism Overcoming Best Way Martial Arts Overcoming Fear Athletics Gaining Power Art Class

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.”

People Thinking Two Hard Bits Practice Records Meditation Positive Thinking Health Buddhism My Friends Aids Longevity Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits.”

People Inspirational Long Spirit Universe Found Individual Saws Buddhism Long Time Long Time Ago

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.”

People World Inspirational War Sometimes Facts Seems Suffering Dies Wonderful This World Buddhism Oppression Curious Alarms Famine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.”

People Inspirational Ignorance Buddhism Stuck Unhappy Cycles Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.”

People World Inspirational Looks Reason Shows Seems Watches Focus This World Particular Inspirational Life Tvs Buddhism Believer Newspapers Tv Shows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.”

People World Inspirational Humans Joy Human Beings This World Buddhism Capable Unhappy Spectrum Mundane Joy And Happiness Great Joy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.”

People Way Inspirational Turns Events Planets Buddhism Circumstances Quiet Majority Painful Live Life Harsh Desperation Our Planet Quiet Desperation Painful Life

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“Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.”

People Inspirational Buddhism Gains Eternity Claims Lifetime Finals Possession Checks Short Time

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

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“Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.”

People Inspirational Joy Goal Successful Buddhism Successful People Attainment Joy And Happiness Short Lived

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.”

People Inspirational Buddhism Fool Satisfied Enlightened Really Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.”

People Inspirational Mind Successful Buddhism Discipline Approach Enlightenment Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.”

People Way Inspirational Has Beens Different Buddhism Type Yoga Karma Different Ways Temperament Pathways Karma Yoga Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.”

People Inspirational Running Life Is Missing Planets Inspirational Life Buddhism Beauty Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.”

People Ifs Knows Inspirational Study Grace Buddhism Balance Approach Professionalism Equanimity Poise

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

“All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.”

People Inspirational Past Difficult Talent Planets Buddhism Billions Strain Terrific Our Planet Past Life Auras

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

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

“Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.”

People Way Inspirational Interesting Buddhism Approach Horse Backwards Carts Interesting Ways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.”

People World Inspirational Mind States Whole Quality Buddhism Depends Practicals State Of Mind Efficient Pragmatic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.”

People Knows Inspirational Buddhism West Los Angeles Wealthy Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.”

People Inspirational Looks Today Walks Buddhism Unhappy Hills Stressed Ghetto Not Happy Stressed Out Beverly Hills

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.”

People Inspirational Beautiful Universe Principles Planets Buddhism Reflection Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.”

People Way Inspirational Different Self Success Careers Particular Buddhism Type Involved Elements Discovery Self Discovery Renunciation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.”

People Inspirational Mind States Buddhism State Of Mind Bad People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.”

People Ifs Inspirational Enough Buddhism Suits Staying Oblivion Family Friends Suits You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.”

People Way Inspirational Mean Games Buddhism Pursuit Boards Board Games

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.”

People Inspirational Kind Home Care Watches Buddhism Enlightenment Don't Care Shopping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.”

People Inspirational Strong Force Common Attitude Situation Buddhism Development Common Sense Psychics Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

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