Frederick Lenz Quotes

Where is truth? Is there truth in what I am doing now?

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.

If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

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.

Jnana yoga is practical.

All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.

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.

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.

Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.

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.

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.

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.

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.

Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

Tragedy is the violation of love.

I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What you think, you become. Your thoughts are strongly affected by those you are emotionally open to.

When we love others we see our oneness with others.

Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.

You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.

It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.

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.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.

This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.