Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that enable us to get back in touch with our deepest innermost feelings.”

— Frederick Lenz

202. “Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It’s necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you’re not human.”

— Frederick Lenz

203. “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

204. “The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.”

— Frederick Lenz

205. “One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you’ve always known has been there. You’ll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.”

— Frederick Lenz

206. “Sri Krishna’s message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.”

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

208. “Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

— Frederick Lenz

209. “In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.”

— Frederick Lenz

210. “Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.”

— Frederick Lenz

211. “There are two choices available in duality – one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.”

— Frederick Lenz

212. “Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.”

— Frederick Lenz

213. “There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.”

— Frederick Lenz

214. “The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.”

— Frederick Lenz

215. “You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.”

— Frederick Lenz

216. “Illusion doesn’t mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist – who is to say the reality of the dream is not real?”

— Frederick Lenz

217. “Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.”

— Frederick Lenz

218. “Humility doesn’t mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.”

— Frederick Lenz

219. “In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that’s been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years – starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.”

— Frederick Lenz

220. “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

221. “What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at everything, and who keeps their mind on their own business and not everybody else’s.”

— Frederick Lenz

222. “In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.”

— Frederick Lenz

223. “You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.”

— Frederick Lenz

224. “Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.”

— Frederick Lenz

225. “No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don’t become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.”

— Frederick Lenz

226. “Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.”

— Frederick Lenz

227. “Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.”

— Frederick Lenz

228. “Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.”

— Frederick Lenz

229. “Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it’s a reflection of your warrior spirit.”

— Frederick Lenz

230. “The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It’s clear – clear light.”

— Frederick Lenz

231. “Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All you see is enlightenment in this world and the other side. There is no other side anymore. It means that you are wakeful.”

— Frederick Lenz

232. “Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.”

— Frederick Lenz

233. “In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.”

— Frederick Lenz

234. “When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.”

— Frederick Lenz

235. “If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.”

— Frederick Lenz

236. “Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.”

— Frederick Lenz

237. “The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there’s a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.”

— Frederick Lenz

238. “People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.”

— Frederick Lenz

239. “A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They’ve been essentially mastered by Zen.”

— Frederick Lenz

240. “Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.”

— Frederick Lenz

241. “All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.”

— Frederick Lenz

242. “The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.”

— Frederick Lenz

243. “By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.”

— Frederick Lenz

244. “Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.”

— Frederick Lenz

245. “Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.”

— Frederick Lenz

246. “We have to push ourselves to stillness – to the natural state.”

— Frederick Lenz

247. “In the end we just realize there’s no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That’s what’s wonderful about the universe there’s no escape from living. Death doesn’t even end it.”

— Frederick Lenz

248. “There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.”

— Frederick Lenz

249. “The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.”

— Frederick Lenz

250. “Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.”

— Frederick Lenz