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“Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.”

Feels Mind Attitude Practice Buddhism Balance Beginners

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.”

Process Natural Practice Study Buddhism Balance Commitment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.”

Giving Trying Whole Practice Figures Buddhism Balance Giving Up Not Giving Up Just Give Up

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.”

Giving Practice Balance Yoga Harmony Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving Balance And Harmony

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.”

Want Form Spirit Practice Balance Mindfulness Gains Increase Who You Are What You Want Sense Of Humor Introspection Willpower Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.”

Men Way May Art Ends Given Practice Creation Balance Achievement Harmony Contrary Surround Dominant Signals Fulfilment

Author:Piet Mondrian

“I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.”

“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.”

“It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.”

Mind Real Fighting Practice Buddhism Balance Victory Battle Gains Defeat Victory And Defeat Real Victory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.”

Hard Compassion Practice Struggle Balance Authenticity Worthiness

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity.”

Source: Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”