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Mysticism - Personal Power - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
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| ramaquotes@tibetanworld.com 2006-01-08, 11:42 am |
| Mysticism - Personal Power - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr.
Frederick Lenz
"From where the average man stands,
Sorcery is nonsense.
And he is right,
Not because this is an absolute fact,
But because the average man
Lacks the energy to deal with sorcery."
- Don Juan Matus
The Power of Silence
Carlos Castaneda
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Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz:
"Personal power is a feeling, like life.
Personal power is the ability to enter into different planes of
reality.
A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda,
and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences
themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite
valuable for one who seeks power.
There is a grace and an ease to power. You feel good about yourself and
your life when you have it. It is well worth having, and it is
certainly miserable not to have it.
A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether
they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined.
They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.
All living things have an aura, a rapidly vibrating, invisible psychic
energy field that protects them from toxic, non-physical energies that
would otherwise be detrimental to them.
Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose
yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you
have a lot of energy or you lose energy.
Everything that we do involves energy, personal power. The more energy
we have, the more we can accomplish.
Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires
requires power.
You can measure your power in your ability to stop thought. The longer
you can stop thought, the more powerful you are.
The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason
you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.
The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't
have the power or chi flowing through you.
When you pick up that sword and you start to fight, a power comes to
you. When you shy back from it, that's when all the little doubts, the
insecurities, the terrible deadness of the human condition surrounds
you.
Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have
enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.
A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a
mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.
What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We
really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the
good news.
It is necessary to store power to be free. Right now you are in the
gravity field of many different people in your life. Each person you
feel attached to is a planetary body...perhaps a heavenly body!
It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where
you gain power and where you lose power.
Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.
No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a
tremendous amount of energy to not do things.
If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy
at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much
more powerful than President Bush.
Personal power is something that is not visible. We can see its
effects, but we cannot see power itself in the same way we see the
effects of wind; but we cannot actually see the wind.
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called
satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal
power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the
process.
I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before
you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain
knowledge and balance.
Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use
to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it
is to drive you someplace you want to go."
- Zen Master Rama
Dr. Frederick Lenz, Ph.D.
www.ramaquotes.com
Thank you in advance for your religious tolerance.
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