Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.”

— Frederick Lenz

153. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

155. “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

156. “There’s a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We’re a multi-bodied traveler. We’re an essence. We’re a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.”

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

158. “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

159. “There is only black light between the stars. It may seem that it’s darkness, but it’s really black light. There is no such thing as darkness. Darkness is a human concept. There’s only black light between the stars.”

— Frederick Lenz

160. “Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.”

— Frederick Lenz

161. “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

162. “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

163. “Slow down. Enjoy life. It’s tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It’s tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.”

— Frederick Lenz

164. “Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

170. “None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it’s fleeting.”

— Frederick Lenz

171. “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

172. “The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.”

— Frederick Lenz

173. “Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.”

— Frederick Lenz

174. “Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come to watch. Enlightenment is rare in this world.”

— Frederick Lenz

175. “Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don’t worry about the words too much.”

— Frederick Lenz

176. “The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it’s the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.”

— Frederick Lenz

177. “The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.”

— Frederick Lenz

178. “The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.”

— Frederick Lenz

179. “Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.”

— Frederick Lenz

180. “Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

181. “We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.”

— Frederick Lenz

182. “You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

183. “Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.”

— Frederick Lenz

184. “Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.”

— Frederick Lenz

185. “The other side is beyond knowing. You cannot know what you experience on the other side, here. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

186. “People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.”

— Frederick Lenz

187. “You’re an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.”

— Frederick Lenz

188. “When you focus on a chakra, it’s very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.”

— Frederick Lenz

189. “The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.”

— Frederick Lenz

190. “Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That’s what discrimination means in Shankara’s yoga.”

— Frederick Lenz

191. “The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.”

— Frederick Lenz

192. “Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.”

— Frederick Lenz

193. “I’m always waiting for you, hoping that you’ll be really interested, that you’ll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I’ve always been waiting and I always will.”

— Frederick Lenz

194. “There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.”

— Frederick Lenz

195. “At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children’s houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.”

— Frederick Lenz

196. “I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.”

— Frederick Lenz

197. “If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can you do for them? They’ve got everything. They are everything. They don’t need to be worshipped or adored.”

— Frederick Lenz

198. “If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.”

— Frederick Lenz

199. “I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I also teach Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist mediation, I have a very eclectic approach to the subject.”

— Frederick Lenz

200. “There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That’s only true if you’re a farmer.”

— Frederick Lenz