Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

354. “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

355. “The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.”

— Frederick Lenz

356. “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

357. “Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.”

— Frederick Lenz

358. “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

359. “Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There’s alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we’re in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited.”

— Frederick Lenz

360. “As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative – ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.”

— Frederick Lenz

361. “The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.”

— Frederick Lenz

362. “Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you’ve gone off the board; you’ve gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you’re not, at the same time.”

— Frederick Lenz

363. “There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.”

— Frederick Lenz

364. “Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is – what in Zen we call “suchness”.”

— Frederick Lenz

365. “You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it’s a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it’s a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.”

— Frederick Lenz

366. “All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

367. “Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that’s operating. There’s a power structure within you. You’re a very political creature.”

— Frederick Lenz

368. “A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.”

— Frederick Lenz

369. “The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.”

— Frederick Lenz

370. “Happiness is something that you don’t postpone. If you are postponing happiness – it is something you will probably never experience much of.”

— Frederick Lenz

371. “The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It’s not relegated to a simple type of being. It’s not the network of the goody-goods.”

— Frederick Lenz

372. “In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.”

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373. “Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.”

— Frederick Lenz

374. “I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.”

— Frederick Lenz

375. “When the world stops, time stops.”

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376. “I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it’s usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.”

— Frederick Lenz

377. “Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they’re doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.”

— Frederick Lenz

378. “If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don’t have enough power when it comes time to perform.”

— Frederick Lenz

379. “In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be.”

— Frederick Lenz

380. “Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.”

— Frederick Lenz

381. “In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.”

— Frederick Lenz

382. “Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.”

— Frederick Lenz

383. “Meditation is the journey to happiness.”

— Frederick Lenz

384. “Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.”

— Frederick Lenz

385. “The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there’s only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.”

— Frederick Lenz

386. “You don’t love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.”

— Frederick Lenz

387. “Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.”

— Frederick Lenz

388. “Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.”

— Frederick Lenz

389. “The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.”

— Frederick Lenz

390. “The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.”

— Frederick Lenz

391. “If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction.”

— Frederick Lenz

392. “If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.”

— Frederick Lenz

393. “The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.”

— Frederick Lenz

394. “Observe how women defeat each other; whether it’s simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won’t be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.”

— Frederick Lenz

395. “You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You’ll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won’t be very different.”

— Frederick Lenz

396. “We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.”

— Frederick Lenz

397. “The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there’s less self and more life, we’re very content, and when there’s more self and less life we’re quite unhappy.”

— Frederick Lenz

398. “Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.”

— Frederick Lenz

399. “If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.”

— Frederick Lenz

400. “I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.”

— Frederick Lenz