Frederick Dodson Quotes

Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps. ~ Frederick Dodson

It is my opinion that enjoying yourself in the present and loosening your definition of time slows the aging process. ~ Frederick Dodson

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts. ~ Frederick Dodson

Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. ~ Frederick Dodson

Well-being is not the goal; it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then. ~ Frederick Dodson

An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain. ~ Frederick Dodson

Don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm. ~ Frederick Dodson

Want what you have, and then you can have what you want. ~ Frederick Dodson

The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self. ~ Frederick Lenz

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity. ~ Frederick W. Smith

The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body. ~ Frederick Lenz

These moments of shared vulnerability are what make me believe that we are equals. That what Ian said before is true - underneath money, fame, class differences, we all bleed the same color. We all hurt the same. We all need, hate, love, cry, want. ~ Jen Frederick

The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don't feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me. The answer is not necessarily the avoidance of sex, but learning to be sensitive and to love and to care. ~ Frederick Lenz

O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen ~ Frederick Buechner

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. ~ Frederick Lenz

How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter. ~ Frederick Lenz

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. ~ Frederick Lenz

The philosophical arguments in favor of man's ability to resist the slide into barbarism sound noble and rational in a classroom or at a cocktail party. But when the enemy is bearing down, bent on taking your life away from you, it's not his country against your country, not his army against your army, not his philosophy against your philosophy-it's the fact that that son-of-a-bitch is trying to kill you and you'd better kill him first. ~ Frederick Downs Jr.

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow. ~ Frederick Sommer

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it. ~ Frederick Franck

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. ~ Frederick Douglass

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us. ~ Frederick Lenz

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits ~ Frederick Crews

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have. ~ Frederick Lenz

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration. ~ Frederick Lenz

Aren't autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don't we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am. ~ Frederick Weisel

A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master. ~ Frederick Lenz

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. ~ Frederick Lenz

Men who live by robbing their fellow men of their labor and liberty have forfeited their right to know anything of the thoughts, feelings, or purposes of those whom they rob and plunder. They have by the single act of slaveholding voluntarily placed themselves beyond the laws of justice and honor, and have become only fitted for companionship with thieves and pirates - the common enemies of God and of all mankind. ~ Frederick Douglass

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada. ~ Frederick Lenz

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you. ~ Frederick Lenz

All at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth! ~ Frederick Franck

A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were. ~ Frederick Lenz

I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What you think, you become. Your thoughts are strongly affected by those you are emotionally open to. ~ Frederick Lenz

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being. ~ Frederick Lenz

what still more shocking outrages were perpetrated upon his mind! with all his noble powers and sublime aspirations, how like a brute was he treated, even by those professing to have the same mind in them that was in Christ Jesus! to what dreadful liabilities was he continually subjected! ~ Frederick Douglass

I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other. ~ Frederick Lenz

In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes. ~ Frederick Lenz

When you go to a power spot, and you think negative or depressing thoughts they tend to grow stronger. Whereas, if you think more positive, happier thoughts, they tend to increase in strength. ~ Frederick Lenz

After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind. ~ Frederick Lenz

The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker. ~ Frederick Lenz

Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly looks down on all creatures with a beneficence that they are too busy apologizing for their unworthiness and performing their good works and assuring Heaven of their unfailing devotion to notice. ~ Frederick Buechner

Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra. ~ Frederick Lenz