Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

54. “Jnana yoga is practical.”

— Frederick Lenz

55. “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

56. “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

57. “Don’t follow the crowd. The crowd doesn’t get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.”

— Frederick Lenz

58. “Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they’re not complete.”

— Frederick Lenz

59. “In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.”

— Frederick Lenz

60. “Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is eternal.”

— Frederick Lenz

61. “Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.”

— Frederick Lenz

62. “Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

63. “The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.”

— Frederick Lenz

64. “Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.”

— Frederick Lenz

65. “Zen is discipline – the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.”

— Frederick Lenz

66. “When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.”

— Frederick Lenz

67. “All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.”

— Frederick Lenz

68. “Samadhi is the actual awareness of what you really are.”

— Frederick Lenz

69. “Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.”

— Frederick Lenz

70. “In the chakras, it’s the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.”

— Frederick Lenz

71. “The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don’t study a subject as much as a person.”

— Frederick Lenz

72. “Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.”

— Frederick Lenz

73. “Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you’ll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.”

— Frederick Lenz

74. “Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are “back in the saddle again”.”

— Frederick Lenz

75. “You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.”

— Frederick Lenz

76. “In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it’s very ecstatic.”

— Frederick Lenz

77. “The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.”

— Frederick Lenz

78. “Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don’t become enlightened.”

— Frederick Lenz

79. “Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

80. “Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.”

— Frederick Lenz

81. “Hold a positive thought of an enlightened person in your mind. When that thought touches their aura, it comes back quickly with a positive lift. You will go up.”

— Frederick Lenz

82. “We live inside our mind. That’s all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it’s internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.”

— Frederick Lenz

83. “Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as “Satori experiences,” provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

84. “The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.”

— Frederick Lenz

85. “Enlightenment is a timeless void. It’s an emptiness that’s filled with the most excellent light.”

— Frederick Lenz

86. “There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you.”

— Frederick Lenz

87. “The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It’s enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.”

— Frederick Lenz

88. “Spiritual balance is to be straight with yourself.”

— Frederick Lenz

89. “Without purity it’s impossible to realize God.”

— Frederick Lenz

90. “Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.”

— Frederick Lenz

91. “Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.”

— Frederick Lenz

92. “When you do something half-heartedly, you don’t get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.”

— Frederick Lenz

93. “All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.”

— Frederick Lenz

94. “Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you’ll see eternity.”

— Frederick Lenz

95. “It’s a long journey and along the journey you’ll get tired. But if, when you’re very, very tired and you’re about to give up and you think:.”

— Frederick Lenz

96. “People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.”

— Frederick Lenz

97. “Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu’s wrtings is the symbol of water.”

— Frederick Lenz

98. “Pure and simple, balance is happiness.”

— Frederick Lenz

99. “Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don’t see opportunities.”

— Frederick Lenz

100. “Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

— Frederick Lenz