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“I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.”

Giving Real Self Compassion Ideals Eternity Offering Samadhi Real Self Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.”

Self Light White Buddhism Enlightenment Eternity Miracle White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”

“I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.”

Self Night Achieve Drinking Depth Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.”

Writing Self America Father Names Sports Lines My Own Prayer Saws Grace Written Sea Rivers Fishes Versions Boat Lakes Fishing Ancestor Scottish Fly Fishing Mongolia Cursive Guidos

Author:Jessica Maxwell

“The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.”

Giving Self Mets Extraordinary Purity Exceptional Gentleness Rama Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation.”

Giving Self Easy Hours Meditation Training Again And Again Rama Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.”

People Thinking Self Spiritual Hate Thousand Girlfriend Rama Rough Times Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.”

Years Self Matter Whole Seems Hate Realizing Sexuality Rama Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful.”

Littles Self Wonderful Humility Purity Rama Refined Egotistical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity.”

World Years Self Light Spiritual White This World Evolution Eternity Increase Speed Combination Rama White Light Spiritual Evolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.”

Self States Reality Ordinary Rama Samadhi Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

Ifs Self Matter Hands Able Ability Emotion Awareness Emotional Smart Empathy Self Awareness Intelligence Manage Emotional Intelligence Distressing No Empathy

Author:Daniel Goleman

“If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.”

Ifs Men I Can Self Helping Fun Effects Men And Women Glad Self Knowledge Influential Rama Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.”

Thinking Needs Two Self Reason Offers Discovery Method Western Lifestyle Self Discovery Desirable Eastern Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.”

Ifs Persons Self Energy Practice Successful Discovery Self Discovery Being Successful Rama Channeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.”

Ifs Way Self Class Teacher Buddhism Citizens Enlightenment Discovery Treats Self Discovery Rama Second Class Citizens

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.”

Doe Self Fun Teacher Inspire Buddhism Enlightenment Discovery Miracle Self Discovery Have Faith Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.”

Self Individual Enjoy Students Taught Buddhism Majority Sufficient Rama Self Sufficient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.”

Self Class Teach Style Particular Buddhism Discovery Dresses Self Discovery Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.”

People Trying Believe Self Philosophy Jobs Teach Taught Buddhism Discovery Method Train Self Discovery Rama Impart

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.”

Want Trying Self Mother Father Energy Figures Buddhism Type Discovery Self Discovery Rama Drains Father Figure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.”

Knows Has Beens Self Awareness Return Planes Do You Know Samadhi Ideation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.”

Self Matter Consciousness Self Consciousness Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.”

Ends Self Left Consciousness Self Consciousness Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.”

Ifs Mind Self Patterns Evolve Formation Deep Within Implicit Samadhi Self Will

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.”

Stills Real Self Concepts Eternity Chains Going Away Samadhi Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more”

Years Littles Real Self Might Order Fashion Eternity Liberation Finding Yourself Samadhi Real Self New Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.”

Mind Self States Thousand Ten Ego Perfection Immortality State Of Mind Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.”

Way Persons Self Philosophy Practice Seeing Illusion Sexuality Marvelous Another Way Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.”

World Self Philosophy Avoidance Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.”

Mean Self Philosophy Form Spirituality Discovery Self Discovery Defined Intuitive Avoidance Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.”

Persons Self Philosophy Care Able Abandon Self Control Tantra Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.”

Self Matter Philosophy Self Realization Realization Sense Of Humor Terrific Will Power Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist than men. Instead, and exactly like so many of their male countrymen, some women found ways of combining support for the national interest with a measure of self-promotion. By assisting the war effort, women demonstrated that their concerns were by no means confined to the domestic sphere. Under cover of a patriotism that was often genuine and profound, they carved out for themselves a real if precarious place in the public sphere.”

“There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?”

Source: History in Our Time

“Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.”

“For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.”

Self Compassion Figures Goodness Active Lists Destructive Righteous Ruthless Amazon Angelic Self Righteous British History Demonic Nightingales Florence Adulation Florence Nightingale

Author:David Cannadine

“Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.”

“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.”

Ifs Made Self Film Artist Interest United Company Greater Return Hollywood Mark Protection Allowing Distribution Self Interest Alliances Craziness Distributors Hart Chaplin

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

May Art Self Philosophy Earth History Expression Claims Pearls Self Expression Oysters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.”

“Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.”

“The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.”

“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.”

Ifs Needs Made Self Play Politics Economy Poet Masters Tools Tasks Moved Slave Servant Liberalism Statues Assembly Craftsman Bidding Tripods

Author:Aristotle

“A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.”

“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.”

Source: The Indian Journals, 1859-62

“But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.”

Men Feels Self Enough Feelings Numbers Happened Worthy Self Worth

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.”

Mean Self Path Enlightenment Concentration Entrances Tantra Samadhi Negation Advanced Education

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.”

Two Self Form Sides Discovery Self Discovery Concentration Two Sides

Author:Frederick Lenz

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