Rama Seetha Quotes

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level. ~ Frederick Lenz

When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality. ~ Frederick Lenz

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends. ~ Frederick Lenz

Rama continued: "I do not know whether there are men born outside humanity, or whether some men are so human as to make others seem unreal. Perhaps a godling lives on earth now and then. Joseph has strength beyond vision of shattering, he has the calm of mountains, and his emotion is as wild and fierce and sharp as the lightning and just as reasonless as far as I can see or know. When you are away from him, try thinking of him and you'll see what I mean. His figure will grow huge, until it tops the mountains, and his force will be like the irresistible plunging of the wind. Benjy is dead. You cannot think of Joseph dying. He is eternal. His father died, and it was not a death." Her mouth moved helplessly, searching for words. She cried as though in pain, "I tell you this man is not a man, unless he is all men. The strength, the resistance, the long and stumbling thinking of all men, and all the joy and suffering, too, cancelling each other out and yet remaining in the contents. He is all these, a repository for a little piece of each man's soul, and more than that, a symbol of the earth's soul."
Her eyes dropped and her hand withdrew. "I said a door was open. ~ John Steinbeck

My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be? ~ Frederick Lenz

In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything. ~ Frederick Lenz

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved. ~ Edi Rama

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation. ~ David Frawley

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things. ~ Trish Stratus

When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light. ~ Frederick Lenz

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand? ~ Neil Gaiman

As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had. ~ Frederick Lenz

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality. ~ Edi Rama

Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California. ~ Frederick Lenz

The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do. ~ Frederick Lenz

I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights. ~ Frederick Lenz

For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city. ~ Edi Rama

Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people. ~ Frederick Lenz

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books. ~ Frederick Lenz

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher. ~ Frederick Lenz

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this. ~ Frederick Lenz

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night. ~ Frederick Lenz

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly. ~ Frederick Lenz

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo. ~ Frederick Lenz

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered. ~ Frederick Lenz

I am a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Aren't we all? I teach meditation to many different types of people, you mentioned celebrities. I also teach meditation to many people who are not famous, but are, in my eyes, very important. ~ Frederick Lenz

School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something. ~ Frederick Lenz

Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else. ~ Frederick Lenz

Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for most people, in that there's almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just light, but that's how everything is for me. ~ Frederick Lenz

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light. ~ Frederick Lenz

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others. ~ Frederick Lenz

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are. ~ Frederick Lenz

When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me. ~ Frederick Lenz

That which you call the devil is part of you. The myth of the devil and of evil is imposed on us by our ignorance. The human mind is a great wonder and magician. It can assume the form of both a devil and a divine being any time it wishes. It can be a great enemy or a great friend, creating either hell or heaven for us. There are many tendencies hidden in the unconscious mind which must be uncovered, faced, and transcended before one intends to tread the path of enlightenment. ~ Swami Rama

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. ~ Frederick Lenz

You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God. ~ Frederick Lenz

Rama glanced at her whenever a beautiful object caught his eye. Every tint of the sky, every shape of a flower or bud, every elegant form of a creeper reminded him of some aspect or other of Sita's person. ~ R.K. Narayan

We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not see our families, not just to watch the evening news and the inane comedies designed to pacify the multitudes, but rather to explore ourselves. ~ Frederick Lenz

What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die. ~ Rama Swami

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present. ~ Rama Swami

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later. ~ Maria Bethania

I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth. ~ Frederick Lenz