Frederick Lenz Quotes
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.
We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone.
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.
God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you.
The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.
Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.
We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.
A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.
You can enjoy the beauties of this world, as long as you remember this world doesn't exist.
You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.
Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.
Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.
The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.
The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.
If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.
Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.
Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.
Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.
Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.
If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.
Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.
All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.
The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.
If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.
Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.
Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.
Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.
The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.
The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.
Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.
The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.
What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.