Frederick Lenz Quotes

Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.

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.

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.

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.

Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

When we love others we see our oneness with others.

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.

Tragedy is the violation of love.

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

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

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

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.

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

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?

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!

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.

If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.

There is wisdom to loving.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.

Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes.

You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.

A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!