Frederick Lenz Quotes

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.

The more I say about God, the less you'll know about God.

God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you.

God is not an objective correlative reality.

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 constantly ask ourselves: "Who am I?"

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.

Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.

The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

Samadhi is the actual awareness of what you really are.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Jnana yoga is practical.

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

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

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.

The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

Love is the highest of all qualities we can experience.

Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.

Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

Love knits families together, friends, lovers, societies, nations and perhaps oneday a world.

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.

Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.

The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.

We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.

We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.