35 Inspirational Frederick Lenz Quotes On Success
1. âA person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.â Frederick Lenz
2. âAny individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.â Frederick Lenz
3. âThe body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.â Frederick Lenz
4. âBy fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.â Frederick Lenz
5. âSome people say: âThere is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering.â Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. Thatâs what makes God, God, by definition.â Frederick Lenz
6. âSpend 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 arenât too many people.â Frederick Lenz
7. âThe scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.â Frederick Lenz
8. âSelf-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.â Frederick Lenz
9. âYou are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.â Frederick Lenz
10. âHappiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.â Frederick Lenz
11. âThe abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.â Frederick Lenz
12. âThere is something beyond power. The totality of oneâs being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.â Frederick Lenz
13. âNone of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.â Frederick Lenz
14. âThe pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.â Frederick Lenz
15. âWe have this recurring dream that weâre human beings, that we have bodies, that weâre in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.â Frederick Lenz
16. âAngry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They donât conserve it and they donât know how to increase it.â Frederick Lenz
17. âLet us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, youâre bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.â Frederick Lenz
18. âWe get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy â what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.â Frederick Lenz
19. âIn Zen we strive to bring both the mind and body into the perfect combination so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.â Frederick Lenz
20. âThe greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.â Frederick Lenz
21. âWhatever o focus on, you become. That s the kee line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.â Frederick Lenz
22. âYoga means we go a step further back. In yoga, we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.â Frederick Lenz
23. âPeople who are humble donât talk too much; they listen.â Frederick Lenz
24. âYou donât know why, but you know you have to go home. Itâs an eternal longing. Itâs Marvellâs drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. Weâre drawn by a force we donât understand, through words, through experience.â Frederick Lenz
25. âMost people are not in the world of awe and wonder. Theyâre in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.â Frederick Lenz
26. âHave the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as âbeginners mindâ. I feel I am a beginner, always; because itâs true.â Frederick Lenz
27. âStress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that itâs something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.â Frederick Lenz
28. âWhen the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. Thatâs nonsense.â Frederick Lenz
29. âThe mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when itâs very still. If ripples appear, lost of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose clarity of the perfect reflection.â Frederick Lenz
30. âYour life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. Itâs seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.â Frederick Lenz
31. âThe good news is that you donât have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.â Frederick Lenz
32. âIt is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.â Frederick Lenz
33. âEverything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.â Frederick Lenz
34. âThe best thing that you can do to deal with these high-speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.â Frederick Lenz
35. âSelf-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.â Frederick Lenz