Fixation – Quotes

I have had death

I have had death threats from people with fixations. Enya

As an actor, I don’t have any politics. As an actor, I’m driven more by an authentic – I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it. Edward Norton

Get your emotions under

Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don’t make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don’t get a fanatical fixation on a teacher. Frederick Lenz

In Old Zen, the

In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation. Frederick Lenz

Tantra is for the

Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn’t care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation. Frederick Lenz

Avoidance of experiences is

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self. Frederick Lenz

To be fixated on

To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly. Frederick Lenz

Zen is the fastest

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. Frederick Lenz

I was haunted always

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day’s letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into … Read more

Meditation is one of

Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we’re not doing anything. Otherwise, we’re always doing something, we’re always thinking something, we’re always occupied. We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations. But by meditating-by not doing anything- all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling … Read more