Frederick Lenz Quotes About Losing
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I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.
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Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.
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Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts
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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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If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.
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If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.
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Only the completely enlightened are beyond winning and losing. Yet, strangely enough, they had to win to get to the point of being beyond winning and losing.
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A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.
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Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.
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In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.
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If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower power levels, then you have to be aware of that and keep your awareness very much within.
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When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.
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Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.
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In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.
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People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.
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You are drained by foolish actions and others.
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Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost.
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I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.
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Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?
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Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.
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Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.
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I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.
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When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.
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It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before.
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If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away.
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You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.
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A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.
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Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.
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If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.
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Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.
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