Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time – a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.”

— Frederick Lenz

2. “This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita – Karma Yoga. If you can’t avoid action, you might as well act.”

— Frederick Lenz

3. “Forgiveness is the best revenge.”

— Frederick Lenz

4. “People who are humble don’t talk too much; they listen.”

— Frederick Lenz

5. “No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.”

— Frederick Lenz

6. “Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.”

— Frederick Lenz

7. “Love is the strongest force in the universe.”

— Frederick Lenz

8. “Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.”

— Frederick Lenz

9. “Selfless giving is the art of living.”

— Frederick Lenz

10. “In sanskrit they say: “Tat twam asi” – thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you’re flooded with immortality.”

— Frederick Lenz

11. “Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.”

— Frederick Lenz

12. “There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It’s not life that moves; it’s awareness.”

— Frederick Lenz

13. “I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.”

— Frederick Lenz

14. “None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.”

— Frederick Lenz

15. “What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

— Frederick Lenz

16. “Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.”

— Frederick Lenz

17. “The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.”

— Frederick Lenz

18. “People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn’t do a very good job.”

— Frederick Lenz

19. “Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.”

— Frederick Lenz

20. “In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.”

— Frederick Lenz

21. “Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.”

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22. “You’re a refraction of the one light. You’re a waveform of light. You’re a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.”

— Frederick Lenz

23. “Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

24. “Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.”

— Frederick Lenz

25. “When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.”

— Frederick Lenz

26. “Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.”

— Frederick Lenz

27. “You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you.”

— Frederick Lenz

28. “There is nothing that you shouldn’t do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.”

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29. “Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.”

— Frederick Lenz

30. “One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.”

— Frederick Lenz

31. “Life is a game in which happiness is the goal.”

— Frederick Lenz

32. “The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.”

— Frederick Lenz

33. “After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you.”

— Frederick Lenz

34. “The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.”

— Frederick Lenz

35. “Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.”

— Frederick Lenz

36. “Nothing lasts forever – except forever. That’s the good news. It’s a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.”

— Frederick Lenz

37. “Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.”

— Frederick Lenz

38. “Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.”

— Frederick Lenz

39. “Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.”

— Frederick Lenz

40. “Learn from the purity of nature.”

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41. “The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn’t need to be noticed.”

— Frederick Lenz

42. “Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.”

— Frederick Lenz

43. “Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.”

— Frederick Lenz

44. “If you’re a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.”

— Frederick Lenz

45. “Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.”

— Frederick Lenz

46. “The quieter you can make your mind, the more you’ve invoked your will.”

— Frederick Lenz

47. “Jnana yoga is practical.”

— Frederick Lenz

48. “Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.”

— Frederick Lenz

49. “We’re at the end of the cycle. You’ve all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.”

— Frederick Lenz

50. “How do we find a way out? By realizing that there’s no place to go, that there’s no way out, that there’s no way in. All that exists is the Self.”

— Frederick Lenz