When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

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A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.

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Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and indulgent.

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If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions or become emotionless when you need to be very sensitive.

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There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truth... by Frederick Lenz

There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.

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Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.

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If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.

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It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.

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Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.

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Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.

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Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

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Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control. by Frederick Lenz

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

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If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.

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It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right"... by Frederick Lenz

It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

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Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

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You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

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If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.

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So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and mo... by Frederick Lenz

So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.

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Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

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Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of you... by Frederick Lenz

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

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Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

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