Frederick Lenz Quotes About Giving
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The male establishment power structure has not really changed its attitude towards women. They did not give these rights to women out of kindness. These rights were fought for by many highly evolved women who cared about the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.
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Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.
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If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
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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?
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We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
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The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.
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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.
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The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
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Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.
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Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.
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You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used.
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Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.
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You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don't need a lot of possessions.
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The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.
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You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.
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Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.
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You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.
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If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.
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Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may mean having a family and a career or it may mean going beyond all that to just work for others. It's hard to say. Rather than making a decision myself, I'm going to give my life to you, to do with as you will, because I know that you are my self, you are my very being.
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It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.
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Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.
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Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.
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I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.
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Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.
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The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?
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Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.
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I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.
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Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.
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Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.
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The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.
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