Spiritual Crossroads
by Dr. Frederick Lenz, RamaInsight
“The time you show your spiritual strength is in a crisis situation, if you’ve learned anything. A balance begins to develop, and that balance should increase every year. Those are the working years. Those are the years when you will determine your fate-I would say years three to five. One and two aren’t that intense, but the velocity each year is stronger. Your own inner being demands more from you, not the teacher; the teacher is content to sit back and watch unless you’re creating a terrific problem for others. But you want more, and that’s when you determine what will happen for the rest of your life.”
Considerations
“What’s important is to accept your fate. One only gains power in life after you’ve accepted your fate. If you try and fight your fate, you waste your power. Power only begins to work in your life after you’ve accepted your fate. Your fate may change, and then you accept that…”
These are direct quotes from the talk Spiritual Crossroads by Rama Dr. Frederick Lenz.
All quotes are reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism