Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There is a whole crazy world around you. You can’t control it, so don’t even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.”

— Frederick Lenz

102. “There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You’ve been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside.”

— Frederick Lenz

103. “Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.”

— Frederick Lenz

104. “If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.”

— Frederick Lenz

105. “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

106. “Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don’t see what is in front of you because you’re so distracted by your thoughts.”

— Frederick Lenz

107. “The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it’s very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.”

— Frederick Lenz

108. “Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don’t have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.”

— Frederick Lenz

109. “Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that’s what we call enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

110. “Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.”

— Frederick Lenz

111. “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

112. “Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.”

— Frederick Lenz

113. “If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.”

— Frederick Lenz

114. “Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.”

— Frederick Lenz

115. “There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there’s a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.”

— Frederick Lenz

116. “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

117. “Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.”

— Frederick Lenz

118. “The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion – a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.”

— Frederick Lenz

119. “Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.”

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

122. “A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.”

— Frederick Lenz

123. “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

124. “Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.”

— Frederick Lenz

125. “Enlightenment is not a finite state. It’s not something that you just do and it’s done. It goes on forever.”

— Frederick Lenz

126. “It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi.”

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

128. “It’s funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.”

— Frederick Lenz

129. “Taoism has no rules. It’s a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.”

— Frederick Lenz

130. “What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.”

— Frederick Lenz

131. “Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to “reboot” your life. It’s a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.”

— Frederick Lenz

132. “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

133. “Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal:.”

— Frederick Lenz

134. “Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.”

— Frederick Lenz

135. “We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can’t see it.”

— Frederick Lenz

136. “Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.”

— Frederick Lenz

137. “Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there’s a doorway, if you can find it – and it leads to immortality.”

— Frederick Lenz

138. “Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.”

— Frederick Lenz

139. “You’re looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God’s face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward – all the faces of God surround you at all times.”

— Frederick Lenz

140. “The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can’t get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they’re talking about.”

— Frederick Lenz

141. “Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.”

— Frederick Lenz

142. “Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.”

— Frederick Lenz

143. “It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.”

— Frederick Lenz

144. “Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.”

— Frederick Lenz

145. “The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.”

— Frederick Lenz

146. “Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.”

— Frederick Lenz

147. “Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen – in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show that the way still existed and wanted to get back to its essence.”

— Frederick Lenz

148. “The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.”

— Frederick Lenz

149. “Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law.”

— Frederick Lenz

150. “A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn’t direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.”

— Frederick Lenz