Frederick Lenz Quotes

The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before.

Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.

All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

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.

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.

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.

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

I found light in the darkness ... or it found me.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that.

Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

There are people who do, what we would call, lower sorcery. It is best not to be concerned with them. They are not happy people and they can't be a problem if you are aware of what they are doing.

There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.

We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together.

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.

Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.