Liberation Quotes by Frederick Lenz

Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

— Frederick Lenz

There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

— Frederick Lenz

My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't…

— Frederick Lenz

In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation…

— Frederick Lenz

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

— Frederick Lenz

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

— Frederick Lenz

As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same…

— Frederick Lenz

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse…

— Frederick Lenz

For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you…

— Frederick Lenz

You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is…

— Frederick Lenz

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You…

— Frederick Lenz

Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her…

— Frederick Lenz

Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a…

— Frederick Lenz

In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would…

— Frederick Lenz

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a…

— Frederick Lenz

There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes…

— Frederick Lenz

I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men…

— Frederick Lenz

There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come…

— Frederick Lenz

Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing…

— Frederick Lenz

Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no…

— Frederick Lenz

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to…

— Frederick Lenz

Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've…

— Frederick Lenz

Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to…

— Frederick Lenz

It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in…

— Frederick Lenz

The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what…

— Frederick Lenz

It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.

— Frederick Lenz

The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the…

— Frederick Lenz

There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the…

— Frederick Lenz

One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a…

— Frederick Lenz

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding…

— Frederick Lenz

If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If…

— Frederick Lenz

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

— Frederick Lenz

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the…

— Frederick Lenz