Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.”

— Frederick Lenz

452. “The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.”

— Frederick Lenz

453. “There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn’t understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they’d say, “Ahh miracla, miracla!””

— Frederick Lenz

454. “When you love someone, you shouldn’t feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.”

— Frederick Lenz

455. “I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We’re in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn’t realized its nonexistence yet.”

— Frederick Lenz

456. “Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life.”

— Frederick Lenz

457. “Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.”

— Frederick Lenz

458. “With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

459. “Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.”

— Frederick Lenz

460. “The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.”

— Frederick Lenz

461. “Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it’s connected with self.”

— Frederick Lenz

462. “We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.”

— Frederick Lenz

463. “Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant “Sring” slowly, elongating each sound. As you do, you will see the consciousness of beauty of everywhere.”

— Frederick Lenz

464. “It’s like looking at the sun, that’s how infinity is. You can’t look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.”

— Frederick Lenz

465. “People always say, ‘A good man is hard to find.’ You’ve never heard that about women, have you?”

— Frederick Lenz

466. “When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.”

— Frederick Lenz

467. “Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.”

— Frederick Lenz

468. “Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.”

— Frederick Lenz

469. “Life isn’t complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That’s the basic premise of Buddhism – that you’re in a very distorted state of mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

470. “Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they’re interested in enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

471. “Self-hate doesn’t create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.”

— Frederick Lenz

472. “There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it’s just ego.”

— Frederick Lenz

473. “The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe.”

— Frederick Lenz

474. “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.”

— Frederick Lenz

475. “You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it’s overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed – you no longer exist.”

— Frederick Lenz

476. “The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you’ve done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.”

— Frederick Lenz

477. “Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that’s believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.”

— Frederick Lenz

478. “Power has destroyed many people – not really. Power doesn’t destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It’s how you use it.”

— Frederick Lenz

479. “You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.”

— Frederick Lenz

480. “If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there’s a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you’ll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.”

— Frederick Lenz

481. “Lack of judgement doesn’t mean that you don’t see what is or is not. It simply means that you realize that everyone is constantly changing – everyone is made up of conscioussness.”

— Frederick Lenz

482. “You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you’re making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it’s actually only the fulfillment of desire.”

— Frederick Lenz

483. “Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.”

— Frederick Lenz

484. “When someone compliments you, listen, but don’t believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.”

— Frederick Lenz

485. “Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else – nirvana.”

— Frederick Lenz

486. “There’s a place where everything comes together and where it’s all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.”

— Frederick Lenz

487. “Love is perhaps the strongest force in the universe. When you meditate with love, what you do is you feel love. Love is like a bird, you get on its back and you ride it up very high above the thought level.”

— Frederick Lenz

488. “Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.”

— Frederick Lenz

489. “Inwardly the sun also has an energy field, it has an aura, so does the earth, so does the moon, and so do all the planets. We’re affected by those auras. It’s not something that you really want to reason out.”

— Frederick Lenz

490. “At the end of the dream, on the other side of the rainbow, there’s only light.”

— Frederick Lenz

491. “The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it’s neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.”

— Frederick Lenz

492. “Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.”

— Frederick Lenz

493. “Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.”

— Frederick Lenz

494. “Everyone is psychic. Being psychic is not a particular talent. Everybody has a left foot. Some people may just walk with that foot, some people may drag it, and some may learn to dance with it.”

— Frederick Lenz

495. “When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.”

— Frederick Lenz

496. “I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.”

— Frederick Lenz

497. “Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.”

— Frederick Lenz

498. “No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.”

— Frederick Lenz

499. “Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.”

— Frederick Lenz

500. “Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility.”

— Frederick Lenz