Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.”

— Frederick Lenz

302. “The eye of God is inside us. It’s looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don’t you?”

— Frederick Lenz

303. “In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.”

— Frederick Lenz

304. “Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.”

— Frederick Lenz

305. “In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation.”

— Frederick Lenz

306. “Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It’s the light of god or whatever you want to call it.”

— Frederick Lenz

307. “You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that’s suggestive of beauty and eternality.”

— Frederick Lenz

308. “Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.”

— Frederick Lenz

309. “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

310. “Trivial Pursuit means that you’ve got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.”

— Frederick Lenz

311. “Don’t listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.”

— Frederick Lenz

312. “We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.”

— Frederick Lenz

313. “Life has no meaning. It doesn’t need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d’etre.”

— Frederick Lenz

314. “You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there’s no one to find the Self. There’s no Self to find.”

— Frederick Lenz

315. “Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.”

— Frederick Lenz

316. “If you just develop your psychic ability and don’t learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.”

— Frederick Lenz

317. “Things don’t make you unhappy. People don’t make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You’re stuck. You’re stuck in time.”

— Frederick Lenz

318. “Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.”

— Frederick Lenz

319. “The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don’t have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.”

— Frederick Lenz

320. “Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.”

— Frederick Lenz

321. “Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you – these are foolish thoughts of people who are bound again and again to birth, death and rebrith for thousands and thousands of incarnations.”

— Frederick Lenz

322. “How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.”

— Frederick Lenz

323. “What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring – somebody else’s journey into the world of enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

324. “There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.”

— Frederick Lenz

325. “If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment.”

— Frederick Lenz

326. “In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes.”

— Frederick Lenz

327. “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

328. “Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.”

— Frederick Lenz

329. “I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.”

— Frederick Lenz

330. “People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.”

— Frederick Lenz

331. “When I speak of tantric yoga, I’m speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It’s a yoga for the last yuga.”

— Frederick Lenz

332. “Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.”

— Frederick Lenz

333. “It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.”

— Frederick Lenz

334. “What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.”

— Frederick Lenz

335. “In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don’t lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.”

— Frederick Lenz

336. “You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.”

— Frederick Lenz

337. “Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.”

— Frederick Lenz

338. “Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.”

— Frederick Lenz

339. “Don’t just sit there. Go do something and don’t expect that it’s going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.”

— Frederick Lenz

340. “A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don’t think it should be. It’s a study that you follow for the rest of your life.”

— Frederick Lenz

341. “If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.”

— Frederick Lenz

342. “Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.”

— Frederick Lenz

343. “Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.”

— Frederick Lenz

344. “You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.”

— Frederick Lenz

345. “Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.”

— Frederick Lenz

346. “Be aware of the dark side of others that seek to interfere with our evolution. Keep distant and closed to such beings, recognizing that they are part of the universal process too, but not a part that we need to be open to at this time.”

— Frederick Lenz

347. “Selfless giving involves time. It takes a bit of time to care and share yourself with the universe.”

— Frederick Lenz

348. “Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don’t be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.”

— Frederick Lenz

349. “The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.”

— Frederick Lenz

350. “Let’s say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there – at least half of one.”

— Frederick Lenz