Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.”

— Frederick Lenz

452. “Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.”

— Frederick Lenz

453. “Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.”

— Frederick Lenz

454. “Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset.”

— Frederick Lenz

455. “Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.”

— Frederick Lenz

456. “When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light.”

— Frederick Lenz

457. “When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.”

— Frederick Lenz

458. “You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

459. “Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.”

— Frederick Lenz

460. “Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.”

— Frederick Lenz

461. “Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

— Frederick Lenz

462. “Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we’re in.”

— Frederick Lenz

463. “Tantric Zen is a state of mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

464. “Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

465. “Self-realization doesn’t imply loss, gain, even transition; it’s only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

— Frederick Lenz

466. “Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.”

— Frederick Lenz

467. “The only reason you feel pain is because you’re so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there’s no pain.”

— Frederick Lenz

468. “The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.”

— Frederick Lenz

469. “Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.”

— Frederick Lenz

470. “If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don’t think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.”

— Frederick Lenz

471. “As the prana current, kundalini and different energies begin to move through you, you will feel yourself moving and rocking. Keep the body still, otherwise that energy will be lost as it expresses itself through the physical.”

— Frederick Lenz

472. “What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will come about slowly and then quickly – it builds momentum.”

— Frederick Lenz

473. “I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I’m sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.”

— Frederick Lenz

474. “The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.”

— Frederick Lenz

475. “When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area.”

— Frederick Lenz

476. “Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It’s like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.”

— Frederick Lenz

477. “The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It’s the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.”

— Frederick Lenz

478. “When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there’s no limit to your journeys into the infinite.”

— Frederick Lenz

479. “If we’re distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we’re in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.”

— Frederick Lenz

480. “In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.”

— Frederick Lenz

481. “If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.”

— Frederick Lenz

482. “The good news is that you don’t have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.”

— Frederick Lenz

483. “Don’t try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.”

— Frederick Lenz

484. “Christ said, ‘Seek and ye shall find.’ Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.”

— Frederick Lenz

485. “In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.”

— Frederick Lenz

486. “The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that’s to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.”

— Frederick Lenz

487. “When you eneter into samadhi and seek to make that magical walk between salvikalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, it’s necessary to focus your awareness not on being or nonbeing.”

— Frederick Lenz

488. “There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.”

— Frederick Lenz

489. “Most people lead their lives like they drive their cars.”

— Frederick Lenz

490. “The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.”

— Frederick Lenz

491. “Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.”

— Frederick Lenz

492. “While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.”

— Frederick Lenz

493. “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

494. “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

495. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

497. “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

498. “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

499. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz