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Action Quotes by Frederick Lenz

69 Action quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz teaches that thoughts shape reality through karma, and mental karma sparks real actions. He says self‑less deeds lift the mind to higher states where new insights appear. He also praises humility, pointing to Gandhi as an example of quiet power.

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All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

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Winning begins at home. It begins with your thoughts and your actions.

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You are drained by foolish actions and others.

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Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

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Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

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You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.

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What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.

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The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your…

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Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not…

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For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a…

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Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the…

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I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown…

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It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

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In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action…

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This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

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Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just…

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Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and…

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I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are…

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Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have…

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To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world,…

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Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one…

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Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has…

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When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult…

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A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

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Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire…

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Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their…

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The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.

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Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind…

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The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people…

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Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible…

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In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it…

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There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.

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In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take…

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What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions.…

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Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to…

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Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

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Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

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If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our…

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Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

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The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and…

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If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

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Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

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You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on…