Frederick Lenz Quotes
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.
There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.
Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.
Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.
Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.
There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.
If your awareness was strong enough, you could change the fate of a whole world without ever leaving your room.
Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.
We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.
One, who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are formatted to do certain things.
The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.
Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.
The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.
A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.
The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.
The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.
If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.
You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.
You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.
Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.
The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.
Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.
This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.
The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.
The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.
This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.