Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

54. “In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

55. “The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.”

— Frederick Lenz

56. “Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.”

— Frederick Lenz

57. “Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.”

— Frederick Lenz

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

62. “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

63. “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

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. “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

66. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

68. “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

69. “Perception defines everything.”

— Frederick Lenz

70. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

72. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

74. “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

75. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

77. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

80. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

86. “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

87. “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

88. “The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you.”

— Frederick Lenz

89. “I don’t have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?”

— Frederick Lenz

90. “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

91. “Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.”

— Frederick Lenz

92. “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

93. “Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.”

— Frederick Lenz

94. “The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It’s not a straight line.”

— Frederick Lenz

95. “Nirvikalpa samadhi or sahaja samadhi is all the way up. You get above the cloud line to the land of eternal snows and it’s ecstasy beyond ecstasy.”

— Frederick Lenz

96. “Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.”

— Frederick Lenz

97. “Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.”

— Frederick Lenz

98. “Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.”

— Frederick Lenz

99. “The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.”

— Frederick Lenz

100. “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