The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christianity is a marketable product. It has very little to do with Jesus Christ. I'm sure it has nothing to do with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
