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“You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.”

Inspirational Should Persons Self Shows Suffering Goal Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Miserable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.”

Inspirational Self Dies Levels Forever Awareness Fields Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Dedication

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.”

Inspirational Humans Self Human Beings Simple Buddhism Eternity Corporations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.”

Inspirational Self Process Meditation Buddhism Personality Lifetime Layers Peeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.”

Inspirational Looks Self Light Able Process Sides Dark Acceptance Buddhism Involved Self Acceptance Enamored

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.”

Inspirational Self Seems Pain Joy Certain Buddhism Amount Degrees Finding Yourself Worthwhile Self Knowledge Just Do It

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

“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.”

Thinking Inspirational Self Hard Pain Dies Buddhism Harder Hopeless Self Knowledge Without Hope

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Humans Self Practice Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.”

Inspirational Needs Self Energy Loses Buddhism Type Discovery Holes Self Discovery Concentration Basics Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.”

Inspirational Mind May Self States Seems Beautiful Easy Simple Progress Buddhism Description State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.”

Inspirational Self Spirit Causes Too Much Buddhism Pure Infinite Unhappiness Traps Radiant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.”

Ifs Inspirational Self Would Be Buddhism Self Realization Realization Logical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.”

People Ifs Inspirational Trying Self Process Buddhism Concepts Discovery Aids Self Discovery Contradictory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Ideas Self States Philosophy Nice Buddhism Discovery Built Self Discovery Enlightened Realistic State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.”

Self Process Meditation Buddhism Ice Allowing Back Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.”

Ifs Mind Kind Self States Meditation Buddhism Boring Dull Gray State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.”

Self States Meditation Buddhism Concepts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.”

Different Self Seems Form Enjoy Meditation Buddhism Helpful Progressive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”

Ifs Mind Self Use Light Universe Perfect Quality Clear Meditation Buddhism Infinite Originals Coming Back Sense Of Self Radiant Identifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.”

Two Self Light Three Strong Buddhism Structure Dose

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.”

Stills Self Past Process Voice Buddhism Reincarnation Our Past Onions Past Life Peeling Peeling An Onion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.”

Ifs Self Voice Expression Buddhism Conscious Within You Dig Deep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.”

Self Play Existence Wave Come Up Surface Disappear Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.”

World Self Dream Awareness This World Self Realization Realization Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.”

Self Dream Hinduism Unfolding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.”

Self Sun Path Return Moon Hinduism Self Knowledge Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.”

War Self Battle One Day Discovery Self Discovery Hinduism Incarnation One Day At A Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.”

World Real Self Dream Seems Night Gone Conditions Wake Up Endless Hinduism Manifold Solidity Dreaming At Night

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

Self Together Sound Loss Wind Bird Gains Wave Self Realization Realization Beach Settling Transition Hinduism Together Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!”

Thinking Self Opportunity Self Realization Realization Gas Immortal Hinduism Immortal Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.”

Self Ocean Excellent Hinduism Parameters

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.”

Self Problem Form Desire Dies Taxes Ego Weight Self Realization Realization Hinduism Weight Problems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything”

Self Light Might Rooms Quiet Self Realization Realization Hinduism Light Up Flashy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.”

Ifs Self Term Realizing Meditation Strange Self Realization Realization Going Away Hinduism Butterfly Metamorphosis Caterpillars Cocoons

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.”

Self Self Realization Realization Liberation Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.”

Has Beens Self Suffering Awareness Conscious Attachment Hinduism Conscious Awareness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.”

Heart Self Matter Greater Enlightenment Consumers Goods Infinity Hinduism Smallest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.”

“There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.”

Writing Self Fall Again And Again Parody

Author:Tobias Wolff

“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.”

Self Christian Joy Religion Dies Christianity Thousand Argument Certainty Strongest Righteous Complacent Self Righteous Completeness Consecration Somber

Book:Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

Source: Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

“We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.”

World May Self Dies Christ Sin Plans Ambition Died Rose Significance New Life Martyr Baptism

Author:Vance Havner

“Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.”

Thinking Should Self Action Ability Self Esteem Overcoming Self Confidence Esteem Delusion

Author:Shantideva

“While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.”

Self Benefits Tasks Importance Difficulty Buddhist Engaged Poison Encounters Inferiors Self-importance Succumbing

Author:Shantideva

“The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.”

Humans Self Limits Achievement Addiction Life Wisdom

Author:Denis Waitley

“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.”

Self States Joy Enjoy Simple Levels Deals Self Esteem Emotional Healthy Down And Esteem Slow Down Emotional Health Simple Joys

Author:Jess C Scott

“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.”

Source: Advice from a Failure

“I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.”

Knows Self Pleasure Awareness Taught Taste Self Awareness Hungry Contentment Better Life I Am Thankful

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."”

Self Christian Winning Lost Christ Believer Christian Inspirational

Author:Vance Havner

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